Group Agency

The emergence of co-operative agency patterns, when supported by action coordination mechanisms, invites consideration of human-AI dyads through group agency.

“The emergence of co-operative agency patterns (Section 5.1), particularly when supported by mechanisms enabling 'Action Coordination' (Section 6), invites consideration of human-AI dyads through the lens of group agency [103].”

Current AI (automated systems built with machine learning) are agents.

“This paper simply grants that such systems are agents.”

A system plausibly has states playing the causal-functional role of intentions if it has representational states, motivational states, and the capacity to process them so as to intervene suitably in the environment.

“A system plausibly has such states if it has (List and Pettit 2011: 20): (1) “representational states that depict how things are in the environment,” (2) “motivational states that specify how it requires things to be in the environment,” and (3) “the capacity to process its representational and motivational states, leading it to intervene suitably in the environment whenever that environment fails”

The international community is increasingly converging on a set of principles, such as jus cogens and human rights, constituting a common ground on the basis of which decisions about international political morality have to be made.

“This form of pluralism-driven scepticism appears all the less well-founded at a time when the international community is increasingly converging on a set of principles, such as jus cogens and human rights, constituting a common ground on the basis of which decisions about international political morality have to be made.”