Agency and Morality as part of Text Entry AI Assistant Personas

TL;DR

This paper advocates for designing AI text assistants with agentic personas grounded in moral values, moving beyond instrumental control to enhance ethical and user-aligned interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for incorporating moral dimensions into AI assistant personas, guiding ethical design in text entry AI systems.

Findings

Proposes guidelines for moral and agentic AI personas

Highlights importance of value-based design in AI assistants

Suggests a shift from instrumental to agentic AI models

Abstract

This paper discusses the need to move away from an instrumental view of text composition AI assistants under direct control of the user, towards a more agentic approach that is based on a value rationale. Based on an analysis of moral dimensions of AI assistance in computer mediated communication, the paper proposes basic guidelines for designing the agent's persona.