Position: Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents
Authors: Sayash Kapoor, Noam Kolt, Seth Lazar
ICML 2025 | Venue PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Theoretical | This position paper argues that we should promote agent advocates: user-controlled agents that safeguard individual autonomy and choice. Doing so demands three coordinated moves: broad public access to both compute and capable AI models that are not platform-owned, open interoperability and safety standards, and market regulation that prevents platforms from foreclosing competition. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Collaboration | Sayash Kapoor * 1 2 Noam Kolt * 3 Seth Lazar * 4 *Equal contribution 1Princeton University 2Mozilla 3Hebrew University 4Australian National University. Correspondence to: Sayash Kapoor <EMAIL>, Noam Kolt <EMAIL>, Seth Lazar <EMAIL>. |
| Pseudocode | No | The paper focuses on conceptual arguments, risks, and policy recommendations for AI agents and does not present any pseudocode or algorithm blocks. |
| Open Source Code | No | This paper is a position paper making conceptual arguments and proposing interventions; it does not describe a specific methodology for which source code would be released. |
| Open Datasets | No | This paper is a position paper and does not involve the use or analysis of specific datasets, thus it does not provide access information for open datasets. |
| Dataset Splits | No | This paper is a position paper and does not conduct experiments with datasets, therefore it does not provide information on dataset splits. |
| Hardware Specification | No | This paper does not describe experimental work that would require specific hardware, and therefore does not provide hardware specifications. |
| Software Dependencies | No | This paper is a position paper and does not implement a specific system or methodology, thus it does not list software dependencies with version numbers. |
| Experiment Setup | No | This paper is a position paper and does not present any experimental results, therefore it does not include details about an experimental setup. |