Socially Grounded Agentic AI: Coordinating Plural Perspectives through Social Theory

As AI systems are deployed across increasingly diverse social contexts, alignment can no longer be framed as the optimization of a single, unified set of values. Instead, systems must be able to recognize, represent, and respond to multiple legitimate perspectives. This has led to growing interest in pluralistic alignment, which seeks to move beyond one-size-fits-all models of appropriate behaviour. However, current approaches often lack a clear account of how values are socially organized, cont

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ethics.ai (4 August 2026), “Socially Grounded Agentic AI: Coordinating Plural Perspectives through Social Theory,” evidence record 16263, https://ethics.ai/record/16263 (originally published by arXiv).

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