An Identity Based Agent Model for AI Value Alignment
摘要
With AI systems being deployed across diverse societal contexts, the AI alignment problem has become critical. Ensuring that AI systems act in accordance with human values, particularly in complex multi-agent environments, remains a significant challenge. Conventional approaches—typically employing uniform value representations and consequentialist methods—often fail to capture the inherent variability in how values influence individual agents’ decision-making. In this work, we address this gap by extending the Computational Transcendence (CT) framework to integrate an agent’s sense of self into its decision-making process. Our approach embeds values within an agent’s identity, thereby facilitating adaptive, individualized behavior that accounts for external social influences, such as conformity. We demonstrate our model in a multi-agent simulation of transit decision-making, where agents choose between public and private transportation based on their value-driven identities. Our results suggest that using identity as a basis for value alignment offers a promising pathway for capturing human-like decision-making in AI systems.