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  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to assist human decision-making across various domains.
  • Understanding the extent and limitations of AI's utility in rational choice is crucial.
  • Existing research often focuses on AI's information-gathering capabilities, but less on its role in rational justification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the ways and extent to which AI is useful for rational decision-making.
  • To differentiate AI's utility across three distinct choice types: easy, hard, and transformative choices.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of AI's role in decision-making frameworks.
  • Categorization of choices into easy, hard, and transformative based on epistemic and metaphysical properties.
  • Evaluation of AI's contribution to information discovery, reason generation, and value maximization in each choice category.

Main Results:

  • For easy choices, AI enhances efficiency and accuracy, increasing long-term value.
  • For hard choices, AI assists in generating will-based reasons to commit to an option.
  • For transformative choices, AI cannot bridge the epistemic or metaphysical gaps, thus not enabling rational decision-making.

Conclusions:

  • AI's utility in rational decision-making is contingent on the nature of the choice.
  • AI can augment, but not fundamentally enable, rational choice when the rational option is not discernible.
  • The capacity for rational decision-making relies on the inherent values of options, which AI cannot create.