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Preference Chains of Command: Making LLM Agents Pick Like People

The gist Most “LLM agents for cities” sound magical until you ask them a basic planning question—which mode would this person actually take at 8am in Cambridge? This paper’s answer is refreshingly concrete: put a belief–desire–intention (BDI) graph around the agent, retrieve analogous people and contexts (Graph RAG), score paths through that graph to get prior choice probabilities, then let the LLM remodel those priors with current conditions (weather, time, place). The authors call this a Preference Chain. ...

August 25, 2025 · 5 min · Zelina
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Urban Loops and Algorithmic Traps: How AI Shapes Where We Go

The Invisible Hand of the Algorithm You open your favorite map app and follow a suggestion for brunch. So do thousands of others. Without realizing it, you’ve just participated in a city-scale experiment in behavioral automation—guided by a machine learning model. Behind the scenes, recommender systems are not only shaping what you see but where you physically go. This isn’t just about convenience—it’s about the systemic effects of AI on our cities and social fabric. ...

April 11, 2025 · 4 min