| Protocolsstandards & coordination | Preferencesaggregated wants | Rightsformal entitlements & adjudication | Incentivesstructured payoffs | Expertisecredentialed epistemic authority | Normsbehavioral expectations | Thick Commitmentsarticulated shared understanding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyadic2 parties | Agent negotiation & bargaining | Agent-agent mediation | Human-outcome contracts & bounties | Agent norm invention | Agent-agent vows | ||
| Groupteams, clubs | Team protocols & workflows | Autonomous corp bylaws & grievance boards | Agent profit-sharing & bounty systems | Agent norm intuition | Values-driven AI organizations | ||
| Communityorgs, cities | Market design for societies of agents | AI judges and adjudication | AI commons management | ||||
| Nationalstates, nations | Agents that represent national interests / large groups | Agents that adjudicate rights | AI regulatory agencies & regulator-anticipation | AIs that follow and update the law | Substantive constitutions & AI alignment docs | ||
| Globaltransnational | Global markets that keep human interests central | Automated defense of human rights | Geopolitical supernegotiation | ||||
| Methodsdesign practices | Protocol designStandards developmentInteroperability testing | Electoral system designAuction designPreference elicitationDeliberative process designGenerative social choice | Constitutional designDispute system designLegislative draftingComparative institutional analysis | Mechanism designMarket designMatching market designMetrology | Accreditation | Regulatory designLegislative draftingModels of normative reasoningModels of norm learning | Values articulation methodsHermeneuticsCase canon designAlignment writingModels of values-based reasoningThick models of value |