econ.TH · 2026-09-02 · No. 103

Theoretical Economics, 2026-09-02.

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    Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control

    Dirk Bergemann, Andrew Koh, Stephen Morris

    econ.TH · cs.AI · cs.GT

    We develop a framework for mechanism design with AI agents whose alignment (preferences) and capabilities (feasible actions and information) are unknown. We want such agents to act on our behalf so mechanisms must incentivize both honesty and obedience. A one-sided imitation structure---capabilities can be concealed but not counterfeited---yields a revelation principle, a characterization of implementable policies via nested cyclical...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.01595 · PDF

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