Mark Bedaywi

2 accepted papers

2025

The Distortion of Public-Spirited Participatory Budgeting

Mark Bedaywi, Bailey Flanigan, Mohamad Latifian, Nisarg Shah

AAAI 2025technical

Participatory budgeting (PB) is an increasingly popular tool for democratically allocating limited budgets to public-good projects. In PB, constituents vote on their preferred projects via ballots, and then an aggregation rule selects a set of projects whose total cost fits within the budget. Recent…

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2025

The Partially Observable Off-Switch Game

Andrew Garber, Rohan Subramani, Linus Luu, Mark Bedaywi, Stuart Russell, Scott Emmons

AAAI 2025technical

A wide variety of goals could cause an AI to disable its off switch because ``you can’t fetch the coffee if you’re dead.'' Prior theoretical work on this shutdown problem assumes that humans know everything that AIs do. In practice, however, humans have only limited information. Moreover, in many of…

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