Towards Social Power Intelligent Agents

Social power, regardless of its pervasiveness and acknowledged impact in a multitude of human social processes remains little explored in virtual agents. To address this gap in social intelligence and consequently virtual agent believability, we introduce the cognitive processes that underlie social power intelligence. In conceptualizing these we identify three core social power components required for operationalizing social power in agents. Our design process is inspired by theoretical background research in social psychology that have long studied social power.