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Sep 2026
AI and Agency: Benefiting Users by Understanding and Serving Explicit Aspirations
This paper introduces a framework for understanding how generative AI affects user agency, drawing on psychological research distinguishing between expressed preferences and immediate, often-regretted desires. We conducted a study examining how AI usage relates to users’ self-reported capacity for accomplishing goals a...
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