Haste makes waste: a case to favour voting bots

David Ben Yosef, L. Dery, S. Obraztsova, Zinovi Rabinovich, M. Bannikova
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Abstract

Voting is a common way to reach a group decision. When possible, voters will attempt to vote strategically, in order to optimize their satisfaction from the outcome. Previous research has modelled how rational voter agents (bots) vote to maximize their personal utility in an iterative voting process that has a deadline (a timeout). However, it remains an open question whether human beings behave rationally when faced with the same settings. The focus of this paper is therefore to examine how the deadline factor affects manipulative behavior in real-world scenarios were humans are required to reach a decision before a deadline. An On-line platform was built to enable voting games by all types of users: agents (bots), humans, and mixed games with both humans and agents. We compare the results of human behavior and bot behavior and conclude that it might be wise to allow bots to make (certain) decisions on our behalf.
欲速则不达:一个支持投票机器人的案例
投票是达成集体决策的一种常见方式。在可能的情况下,选民会尝试策略性地投票,以优化他们对结果的满意度。之前的研究已经模拟了理性选民代理(机器人)如何在一个有截止日期(超时)的迭代投票过程中投票以最大化他们的个人效用。然而,面对同样的环境,人类是否会理性行事,这仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。因此,本文的重点是研究在要求人类在截止日期之前做出决定的现实场景中,截止日期因素如何影响操纵行为。我们建立了一个在线平台,支持所有类型的用户进行投票游戏:代理(机器人)、人类,以及人类和代理的混合游戏。我们比较了人类行为和机器人行为的结果,并得出结论,允许机器人代表我们做出(某些)决定可能是明智的。
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