Algorithms for the Greater Good! On Mental Modeling and Acceptable
  Symbiosis in Human-AI Collaboration
  Effective collaboration between humans and AI-based systems requires
effective modeling of the human in the loop, both in terms of the mental state
as well as the physical capabilities of the latter. However, these models can
also open up pathways for manipulating and exploiting the human in the hopes of
achieving some greater good, especially when the intent or values of the AI and
the human are not aligned or when they have an asymmetrical relationship with
respect to knowledge or computation power. In fact, such behavior does not
necessarily require any malicious intent but can rather be borne out of
cooperative scenarios. It is also beyond simple misinterpretation of intents,
as in the case of value alignment problems, and thus can be effectively
engineered if desired. Such techniques already exist and pose several
unresolved ethical and moral questions with regards to the design of autonomy.
In this paper, we illustrate some of these issues in a teaming scenario and
investigate how they are perceived by participants in a thought experiment.
