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Jacob W. Crandall

5 accepted papers

2026

Toward Simulating Networked Societies with Formal Institutions Using AI Agents

AAAI 2026technical

Institutions are key to creating societies that are efficient, fair, and benevolent. Despite their importance, the complexities of human (networked) societies make it difficult to understand how formal institutions form and how they shape human communities. Artificial intelligence (AI) can potenti

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2024

Fostering Collective Action in Complex Societies Using Community-Based Agents

IJCAI 2024poster

As AI integrates into human societies, its ability to engage in collective action is increasingly important. Human social systems have large and flexible strategy spaces, conflicting interests, power asymmetry, and interdependence among members, which together make it challenging for agents to lear…

2023

Proficiency Self-Assessment without Breaking the Robot: Anomaly Detection using Assumption-Alignment Tracking from Safe Experiments

ICRA 2023poster

Proficiency self-assessment (PSA), the ability to assess how well one can carry out a task, is a desirable capability of autonomous robot systems. Prior work has proposed assumption-alignment tracking (AAT) for performing PSA, and has shown that it can accurately predict robot performance in real-ti…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2022

A Method for Designing Autonomous Robots that Know Their Limits

ICRA 2022poster

While the design of autonomous robots often emphasizes developing proficient robots, another important attribute of autonomous robot systems is their ability to evaluate their own proficiency and limitations. A robot should be able to assess how well it can perform a task before, during, and after i…

Cited by 22SourceScholar