{
  "id": 3868821,
  "title": "Emotional Preferences as Goal-Priority Regulation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/emotional-preferences-as-goal-priority-regulation",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-27T12:58:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27072v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A core question in decision-making for agents is whether the relative priorities of competing lower-level objectives can be determined by emotional preferences autonomously generated by higher-level goals, rather than being externally prespecified. Under changing external environments and evolving internal states, emotions play an important functional role in regulating the relative priorities of…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}