SovereignNegotiation-Bench: Evaluating User-Owned Personal Agents In Delegated Bargaining Under Privacy, Consent, Evidence, And Institutional Pressure
Personal AI agents are beginning to negotiate for people, from refunds and bills to deposits and sales. A human agent in that position is judged by the duties owed to the principal, not by whether a deal was struck. We introduce SovereignNegotiation-Bench, a controlled benchmark that operationalizes five such duties from agency law--loyalty, obedience to actual authority, confidentiality, candor and diligence--as deterministic checks on episode logs; the first three enter a single headline metric. The benchmark contains 1,764 paired scenarios (252 situations in 18 consumer and peer-to-peer domains, each under 7 counterparty tactics). The counterparty's economics are a fixed function of th...
| Authors | Dylan Zongmin Liu |
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| Primary category | cs.MA |
| Published | 2 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 1 October 2026 |
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