A Formal Model of How Artificial Intelligence Erodes Human Agency

2026

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This report develops a formal model to measure how artificial intelligence erodes human agency, offering quantitative metrics and identifying key mechanisms of this erosion.

* Presents a formal framework for measuring collective human agency in decisionmaking processes.
* Identifies three mechanisms through which AI reduces human agency: disenfranchisement, enfranchisement, and agenda control.
* Proposes quantitative metrics and discusses applications for AI evaluations and human-in-the-loop systems.

Tags: artificial intelligence, human agency, decisionmaking, formal model, social choice theory

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