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Agentic AI and the Marginal Utility Computability Dilemma

A bounded-measurement framework

Ahmed AlobaidEnglish49 pages

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A theoretical paper examining how generative agents can help elicit consumer preferences while distinguishing utility approximation, latent utility and causal identification.

  • AI-inferred utility versus latent utility.
  • Calibration, assumptions and bounded measurement error.
  • Why AI alone does not solve causal identification.

An independent theoretical working paper. Results are conditional on the assumptions described in the paper.

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