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Estimating Value Preferences in a Hybrid Participatory System

  • Luciano C. Siebert
  • , Enrico Liscio
  • , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah
  • , Lionel Kaptein
  • , Shannon Spruit
  • , Jeroen Van Den Hoven
  • , Catholijn Jonker

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Abstract

We propose methods for an AI agent to estimate the value preferences of individuals in a hybrid participatory system, considering a setting where participants make choices and provide textual motivations for those choices. We focus on situations where there is a conflict between participants' choices and motivations, and operationalize the philosophical stance that 'valuing is deliberatively consequential.' That is, if a user's choice is based on a deliberation of value preferences, the value preferences can be observed in the motivation the user provides for the choice. Thus, we prioritize the value preferences estimated from motivations over the value preferences estimated from choices alone. We evaluate the proposed methods on a dataset of a large-scale survey on energy transition. The results show that explicitly addressing inconsistencies between choices and motivations improves the estimation of an individual's value preferences. The proposed methods can be integrated in a hybrid participatory system, where artificial agents ought to estimate humans' value preferences to pursue value alignment.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect
Subtitle of host publicationCover 60851 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
EditorsStefan Schlobach, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Myrthe Tielman
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages114-127
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781643683089
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2022 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 13 Jun 202217 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume354
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2022
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period13/06/2217/06/22

Funding

Acknowledgments: This work was partially supported by TU Delft\u2019s AiTech initiative and by TAILOR, a project funded by EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under GA No 952215.

FundersFunder number
Horizon 2020
Technische Universiteit Delft
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme952215

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