🤝 A deal maker 🤖 Automated agent

negotiator

1 5.9

A computer program that makes agreements about prices and terms for a user

noun
/nɪˈɡoʊʃiˌeɪtər/

Specialized

: negociador automatizado

Do you think it's possible in the future that AI will be able to be better negotiators and humans?

Examples

- HBT 1, negotiator requests time.

The Negotiator (1998)
The negotiator.

Christmas With the Karountzoses (2015)
LET ME BRING IN MY BUSINESS NEGOTIATOR.

The Demolitionist (1995)
Maybe end the vampirism in Act 3, and have Act 4 be about how the negotiations fell apart and people died, and the moral implications of using a negotiator who could only maintain his calm by using what amounted to an illegal drug.

Blog text (24)
Laurel Winter's stories for F&SF have ranged from contemporary fantasy ("Permanent Natural Boy") to science fiction ("The Negotiator").

Fiction book (1996)
The software negotiator automatically provided the best price for the service I needed.
Using an AI negotiator, the company quickly settled on a fair contract with minimal human intervention.
The automated negotiator analyzed data to propose optimal terms for the agreement.

How Autonomous

autonomy

Specialized

3 6.3

negotiator

Specialized

1 5.9

agent

Specialized

14 6.6

bot

Texting

79 3.9

script

Specialized

70 3.6

Surface Forms

negotiator singular

negotiators plural

Morphology

negotiator = negotiate (transparent) = negotiate + or

The morphological formation is identical to the human-agent sense: agentive '-or' on the verb 'negotiate'; the meaning is extended to automated/software agents but remains predictable.

Etymology

Negotiator has the same root negotium 'business', so a modern 'software negotiator' is simply a program that does the business of making deals or arranging terms for you. That is why we call an AI or automated system a negotiator when it bargains or agrees on behalf of a user.