“…Recent progress that has been made in the development of automated agents which can interact proficiently with people, including negotiation agents (Rosenfeld et al 2014b;Dsouza et al 2013;Vahidov, Kersten, and Saade 2012;de Melo, Carnevale, and Gratch 2011;Gal et al 2012;Oshrat, Lin, and Kraus 2009;Lin et al 2008), advice and service provision agents (Azaria et al 2012;Delecroix, Morge, and Routier 2013;Elmalech et al 2015), automated mediators (Lin, Gev, and Kraus 2011), discussion agents (Fenster, Zuckerman, and Kraus 2012;Ren et al 2014) and persuasion agents (Azaria, Aumann, and Kraus 2014), can be the basis for the development of agents capable of performing all four tasks. We will discuss a few ideas and difficulties in relation to such agents in this extended abstract.…”