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We study AI alignment through the lens of law-and-economics models of deterrence and enforcement. In these models, misconduct is not treated as an external failure, but as a strategic response to incentives: an actor weighs the gain from…

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While most approaches in formal methods address system correctness, ensuring robustness has remained a challenge. In this paper we present and study the logic rLTL which provides a means to formally reason about both correctness and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Tzanis Anevlavis , Matthew Philippe , Daniel Neider , Paulo Tabuada

We develop a general game-theoretic framework for reasoning about strategic agents performing possibly costly computation. In this framework, many traditional game-theoretic results (such as the existence of a Nash equilibrium) no longer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-02 Joseph Y. Halpern , Rafael Pass

We explore stability and fairness considerations in decentralized networked markets with bilateral contracts, building on the trading networks framework [Hatfield et al., 2013]. In our trading network game, we show that a well-defined…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-25 Simon Finster , Paul W. Goldberg , Edwin Lock , Matilde Tullii

We consider a community of users who must make periodic decisions about whether to interact with one another. We propose a protocol which allows honest users to reliably interact with each other, while limiting the damage done by each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Paul Christiano

Though voting-based consensus algorithms in Blockchain outperform proof-based ones in energy- and transaction-efficiency, they are prone to incur wrong elections and bribery elections. The former originates from the uncertainties of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shengling Wang , Xidi Qu , Qin Hu , Weifeng Lv

In a human-AI collaboration, users build a mental model of the AI system based on its reliability and how it presents its decision, e.g. its presentation of system confidence and an explanation of the output. Modern NLP systems are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Shehzaad Dhuliawala , Vilém Zouhar , Mennatallah El-Assady , Mrinmaya Sachan

We consider the problem of whether a given decision model, working with structured data, has individual fairness. Following the work of Dwork, a model is individually biased (or unfair) if there is a pair of valid inputs which are close to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Philips George John , Deepak Vijaykeerthy , Diptikalyan Saha

The AI Control research agenda aims to develop control protocols: safety techniques that prevent untrusted AI systems from taking harmful actions during deployment. Because human oversight is expensive, one approach is trusted monitoring,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ashwin Sreevatsa , Sebastian Prasanna , Cody Rushing

AI services are known to have unstable behavior when subjected to changes in data, models or users. Such behaviors, whether triggered by omission or commission, lead to trust issues when AI works with humans. The current approach of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Biplav Srivastava , Kausik Lakkaraju , Mariana Bernagozzi , Marco Valtorta

Comparison data elicited from people are fundamental to many machine learning tasks, including reinforcement learning from human feedback for large language models and estimating ranking models. They are typically subjective and not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yiling Chen , Shi Feng , Fang-Yi Yu

As machine learning systems are increasingly used to make real world legal and financial decisions, it is of paramount importance that we develop algorithms to verify that these systems do not discriminate against minorities. We design a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Osbert Bastani , Xin Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama

We consider scenarios where a worker robot, who may be unaware of the human's exact expectations, may have the incentive to deviate from a preferred plan (e.g. safe but costly) when a human supervisor is not monitoring it. On the other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zahra Zahedi , Sailik Sengupta , Subbarao Kambhampati

It is typically expected that if a mechanism is truthful, then the agents would, indeed, truthfully report their private information. But why would an agent believe that the mechanism is truthful? We wish to design truthful mechanisms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Simina Brânzei , Ariel D. Procaccia

Performing some task among a set of agents requires the use of some protocol that regulates the interactions between them. If those agents are rational, they may try to subvert the protocol for their own benefit, in an attempt to reach an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jordi Soria-Comas , Oana Ciobotaru

Modern language models fail a fundamental requirement of trustworthy intelligence: knowing when not to answer. Despite achieving impressive accuracy on benchmarks, these models produce confident hallucinations, even when wrong answers carry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohamad Amin Mohamadi , Tianhao Wang , Zhiyuan Li

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the corner stone of many systems used in our daily lives such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare systems, and unmanned aircraft systems. Machine Learning is a field of AI that enables systems to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon , Foutse Khomh

Prior work on trustworthy AI emphasizes model-internal properties such as bias mitigation, adversarial robustness, and interpretability. As AI systems evolve into autonomous agents deployed in open environments and increasingly connected to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Wenyue Hua , Tianyi Peng , Chi Wang , Jiaxin Pei , Ian Kaufman , Bryan Lim , Chandler Fang

Distributed aggregative optimization methods are gaining increased traction due to their ability to address cooperative control and optimization problems, where the objective function of each agent depends not only on its own decision…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ziqin Chen , Magnus Egerstedt , Yongqiang Wang

In this work, we study the consensus problem in which legitimate agents send their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of an unknown subset of malicious or faulty agents. In contrast to former works, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Sarper Aydın , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić