A Formal Model of How AI Erodes Human Agency

2026

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1) This report develops a formal framework for measuring how AI erodes human agency, offering quantitative metrics and identifying mechanisms of loss to inform policy and research.
2) * Develops a coalition-based model of collective agency using social choice theory.
* Identifies three mechanisms of AI-driven agency erosion: human disenfranchisement, AI enfranchisement, and AI agenda control.
* Proposes quantitative metrics for tracking agency loss and identifying potential irreversibility.
3) AI, human agency, formal model, social choice theory, decisionmaking

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