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'''Preference aggregation''' is the problem of combining the desires, values, or goals of multiple agents into a single coherent objective that can guide collective action or system design. It is the foundational challenge of [[Social Choice Theory|social choice theory]], [[Mechanism Design|mechanism design]], and [[AI Alignment|AI alignment]]: no agent may fully endorse the aggregated preference, yet the system must optimize something.

The difficulty is not merely logistical. As [[Arrow's Impossibility Theorem|Arrow's impossibility theorem]] demonstrates, any preference aggregation mechanism satisfying minimal fairness criteria can produce irrational collective choices. In AI systems, this manifests as [[RLHF|RLHF]] training on heterogeneous human raters: the "human preference" being optimized is already an aggregation artifact, and its divergence from any individual's values is a source of [[Reward Hacking|reward hacking]].

Preference aggregation is not a preprocessing step to alignment. It ''is'' alignment — the moment we assume a single objective function, we have already made the most consequential normative choice.

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