CHAI Micah Carroll and former CHAI interns Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, and Yawen Duan published a paper titled Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems for FAccT 2023.

To the question: Are AI systems “just another tool”?, they answer not when we give them agency! The paper analyzes how distinctive harms might arise as we increase AI agency along the 4 axes of underspecification, directness of impact, goal-directedness, and long-term planning