{
  "id": 304,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02672v1",
  "title": "Internal Pluralism and the Limits of Pairwise Comparisons",
  "summary": "Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However, their use builds in two strong assumptions: that local comparisons are sufficient evidence about how a person wants an automated decision rule to behave, and that people can always answer those comparisons decisively. We investigate how these assumptions may be compromised under internal pluralism: the idea that an individual evaluates decision ",
  "authors": "Bailey Flanigan, Michelle Si",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-02T18:08:50.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:28.433Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/304",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02672v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}