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Autonomous AI agents might serve as credible commitment devices, enabling actors to carry out actions based on complex conditions and helping solve problems with incomplete contracting.
“Autonomous AI agents themselves might also serve as credible commitment devices (Howard, 1988; McAfee, 1984; Tennenholtz, 2004), enabling actors to carry out actions based on potentially complex conditions and thus helping to solve problems with incomplete contracting (Schmitz, 2001).”
From Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI (2025) · cites this paper as Howard, 1988
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- Authors
- Howard, J. V.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Howard, J. V.
- ORCID
- Howard, J. V.
- Venue
- Theory and Decision
- Published
- 1988-05
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 203-213
- ISSN
- 0040-5833 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7187
- OpenAlex
- W2038234670
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 27
- FWCI
- 6.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Theory and Decision (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Game Theory and Applications
- Keywords
- prisoner's dilemma, cooperation, game theory, social dilemmas
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