Risk Assessment Utility Model for Value-Aligned Decisions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals often make irrational or risky decisions that deviate from their personal values due to psychological and cognitive biases, and it is difficult to identify and understand these deviations in real-time.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines user values, generates a risk-neutral utility function based on these values, and compares user selections to choice options against this function to assess the risk of potential decisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If individuals make decisions based on limited time and information, then decision speed is improved, but decision accuracy and alignment with personal values deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-determining user values and constructing a risk-neutral utility function before the actual decision-making moment. This allows the system to quickly compare potential decisions against established value benchmarks without requiring extensive real-time analysis, thus maintaining fast decision speed while improving alignment accuracy through pre-established value frameworks.
2Measurement precision
If individuals attempt to identify risky decisions in real-time, then decision accuracy is improved, but cognitive load and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by comparing actual user decisions against the pre-established risk-neutral utility function and providing real-time risk assessments. This automated feedback mechanism enables rapid identification of value-misaligned decisions without requiring substantial cognitive effort from users, as the computational analysis is performed by the system rather than the individual.
3Speed
If psychological and cognitive biases influence decision-making, then decision speed is maintained, but decision quality and rationality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the user's intuitive decision-making and the final choice by inserting risk assessment and value alignment verification. This intermediary process automatically detects when decisions deviate from personal values due to biases, providing corrective feedback that improves decision rationality while maintaining the user's natural decision speed through automated rather than manual intervention.
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AI summary
A method implemented by a processor of a device, the method including determining one or more user values, determining a prompt requiring a decision, and receiving a user selection to one or more choice options related to the one or more user values and pertaining to the prompt requiring a decision. The method further includes comparing the user selection to a risk-neutral utility function and assessing a risk of a potential decision based on the comparison.