According to the Financial Times, Anthropic is seeking advice from law firms and other legal institutions on how AI agents should negotiate for users, such as bargaining, resolving disputes or negotiating salaries. Questions under discussion include when agents should seek human feedback and how wary they should be of other AI agents without becoming overly suspicious. The work remains exploratory.
Anthropic is discussing AI agent negotiation rules with legal institutions, report says
According to the Financial Times, Anthropic is seeking advice from law firms and other legal institutions on how AI agents should negotiate for users, such as bargaining, resolving disputes or negotiating salaries. Questions under discussion include when agents should seek human feedback and how wary they should be of other AI agents without becoming overly suspicious. The work remains exploratory.
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Anthropic explores bringing negotiating ethics into Claude agents
Anthropic wants Claude agents to follow lawyers’ negotiating norms when bargaining with other people’s agents, settling disputes and negotiating pay. In Project Deal, agents for 69 employees closed 186 deals without human approval; Opus agents achieved better buying and selling prices than Haiku agents, while users gave the deals nearly identical fairness ratings.
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Anthropic wants Claude agents to follow lawyers’ negotiating norms when bargaining with other people’s agents, settling disputes and negotiating pay. In Project Deal, agents for 69 employees closed 186 deals without human approval; Opus agents achieved better buying and selling prices than Haiku agents, while users gave the deals nearly identical fairness ratings.