AI-Mediated Explainable Regulation for Justice
arXiv:2604.00237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Present practice of deciding on regulation faces numerous problems that make adopted regulations static, unexplained, unduly influenced by powerful interest groups, and stained with a perception of illegitimacy. These well-known problems with the regulatory process can lead to injustice and have substantial negative effects on society and democracy. We discuss a new approach that utilizes distributed artificial intelligence (AI) to make a regulatory recommendation that is explainable and adaptable by design. We outline the main components of a system that can implement this approach and show how it would resolve the problems with the present regulatory system. This approach models and reasons about stakeholder preferences with separate pref
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Abstract:Present practice of deciding on regulation faces numerous problems that make adopted regulations static, unexplained, unduly influenced by powerful interest groups, and stained with a perception of illegitimacy. These well-known problems with the regulatory process can lead to injustice and have substantial negative effects on society and democracy. We discuss a new approach that utilizes distributed artificial intelligence (AI) to make a regulatory recommendation that is explainable and adaptable by design. We outline the main components of a system that can implement this approach and show how it would resolve the problems with the present regulatory system. This approach models and reasons about stakeholder preferences with separate preference models, while it aggregates these preferences in a value sensitive way. Such recommendations can be updated due to changes in facts or in values and are inherently explainable. We suggest how stakeholders can make their preferences known to the system and how they can verify whether they were properly considered in the regulatory decision. The resulting system promises to support regulatory justice, legitimacy, and compliance.
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Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
Cite as: arXiv:2604.00237 [cs.CY]
(or arXiv:2604.00237v1 [cs.CY] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.00237
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From: Thomas Hofweber [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:00:42 UTC (191 KB)
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