Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04345v2
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:55:30 GMT
• Title: Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents
• Authors: Sayash Kapoor, Noam Kolt, Seth Lazar,
• Abstract summary: Language model agents are poised to mediate how people navigate and act online.<n>If the companies that already dominate internet search, communication, and commerce control these agents, the resulting platform agents will deepen surveillance.<n>This position paper argues that we should promote user-controlled agents that safeguard individual autonomy and choice.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Language model agents are poised to mediate how people navigate and act online. If the companies that already dominate internet search, communication, and commerce -- or the firms trying to unseat them -- control these agents, the resulting platform agents will likely deepen surveillance, tighten lock-in, and further entrench incumbents. To resist that trajectory, 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.

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