When Assisting One Disempowers Another
Personal AI agents are increasingly deployed in shared environments, where their actions affect not just the primary user they are assisting, but bystanders who never consented to being affected by the system. We show that a well-meaning AI assistant optimizing for one user's benefit can unintentionally erode a bystander's agency, a phenomenon we formalize as bystander disempowerment. We theoretically characterize the conditions under which disempowerment arises, showing it emerges when an assistant systematically selects actions that increase user empowerment at the bystander's expense. We empirically demonstrate this in Disempower-Grid, a parameterized suite of multi-agent gridworld environments, finding that between 27-96% of procedurally generated environments exhibit disempowerment, and that the presence of disempowerment depends strongly on assistant objective and capability, not just environmental structure.
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