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Responsibility Gap and Diffusion in Sequential Decision-Making Mechanisms

Artificial Intelligence 2025-07-04 v1

Abstract

Responsibility has long been a subject of study in law and philosophy. More recently, it became a focus of AI literature. The article investigates the computational complexity of two important properties of responsibility in collective decision-making: diffusion and gap. It shows that the sets of diffusion-free and gap-free decision-making mechanisms are Π2\Pi_2-complete and Π3\Pi_3-complete, respectively. At the same time, the intersection of these classes is Π2\Pi_2-complete.

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@article{arxiv.2507.02582,
  title  = {Responsibility Gap and Diffusion in Sequential Decision-Making Mechanisms},
  author = {Junli Jiang and Pavel Naumov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.02582},
  year   = {2025}
}
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