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If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. This fundamental psychological principle, illuminated through the lens of stage magic, offers insights into how we might approach the development and understanding of artificial intelligence agents.
Consider a magician's card trick where a spectator seemingly makes a free choice among 52 possibilities, only to select from a carefully constructed set of three predetermined options. This illusion of choice mirrors a crucial challenge in AI development: how do we create systems that can genuinely exercise agency rather than simply executing predetermined patterns?