Value-Sensitive Delegation in Everyday AI Agent Use: Evidence from OpenClaw

2026-09-18

AI Summary

研究通过分析Reddit上关于使用OpenClaw的帖子，探讨了用户在日常AI代理使用中的价值敏感性委托问题，提出实现用户重视的价值不仅需关注任务完成情况，还需注意委托条件。

Abstract

Users increasingly delegate work to autonomous AI agents, yet evaluations typically measure task completion rather than the values users prioritize. Using Value Sensitive Design, we analyzed, with LLM assistance, 73,093 first-person Reddit posts about using OpenClaw, each for its human value, agent aspect, value fulfillment, and user outcome. The 21 values form six value groups, including Autonomous, Dependable, and Affordable Operation, Bounded Reach, Reviewability, and Equitable Access. Relative to each aspect's corpus share, values clustered not at the agent's outputs but at the operating conditions users set around a run. Values were usually met where users described what the agent delivered, in five of six groups, and mostly unmet where users described supervising it, in all six groups. We conceptualize this pattern as value-sensitive delegation. Supporting human values requires attention not only to what an agent accomplishes, but to the conditions users set around delegation, including cost, access, and oversight.

Problem

• Value-Sensitive Design
• Autonomous AI Agents
• User Values
• Delegation Conditions

Innovation

• Value-Sensitive Design
• Delegation Conditions
• Human Values