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New Paper Links Information-Theoretic Empowerment to Capability-Based Human Power

An arXiv paper proposes 'goal revelation' as a bridge between information-theoretic empowerment and capability-based human power, addressing how optimal agents tend to acquire power across objectives (instrumental convergence) as AI agents are embedded in human environments.

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  1. 2026-11-06 05:00 · arXiv cs.AI
    Goal Revelation as a Bridge Between Information-Theoretic Empowerment and Capability-Based Human Power

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