Of Models and Tin Men
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11137
An ambitious research agenda:
"In a #PrincipalAgentProblem, conflict arises because of information asymmetry together with inherent misalignment between the utility of the agent and the principal… argue the assumptions underlying principal-agent problems are
crucial to capturing the essence of safety problems involving pre-trained AI models in real-world situations."
#llm #AIEthics #MoralHazard #AdverseSelection #economics

Achievement unlocked: citing Stafford Beer’s "the purpose of a system is what it does" in an i-school post about museum history that detoured into prison ideologies, the carceral state, and agency theory. (Thanks Michel Foucault, for the prisons, and Pär Winzell for the cybernetics.)

#GLAM #museums #foucault #principalAgentProblem #ischool #panopticon #cybernetics