We may need to consider joint speech acts such as making an agreement.

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• joint speech actsconcept0.825
  Speech acts like making an agreement that involve multiple parties.
• Speech acts are necessary in common sense informatic situations where agents with different goals and knowledge interact.claim0.812
  McCarthy's fundamental position: most important features of speech acts are independent of whether agents are human or machine.
• Many kinds of human speech act are relative to social institutions that change, and the exchange of speech acts among computer programs will often involve the design of new institutions prescribing the effects of speech acts.claim0.782
  Claim about designing institutions for program speech acts.
• What must be true in order that a speech act of a given kind be successfully performed?question0.777
  Key question shared with philosophers about successful speech acts.
• Many speech act properties are independent of whether the agent is human or machine.claim0.773
• Many uses of speech acts do not require human-level intelligence for programs to perform them.claim0.761
  Key contention of paper: Elephant 2000 can support varying levels of AI capability without requiring full human intelligence.
• Which speech act uses require AI/intentionality vs which do not?question0.750
• For some purposes, it will be convenient to settle for specifications in terms of fulfilling internal commitments, and sometimes the public character of promises will have to be taken into account in the specifications.claim0.746
  Trade-off between internal and public obligations.