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This paper argues that taking risks on behalf of others is problematic when their risk attitudes are unknown, highlighting ethical concerns.
This paper provides a defense of the principle ‘avoid risk for others:’ when a person’s risk-attitudes are unknown, it is wrong to take, on their behalf, some of the risks that they could rationally choose to take.
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Fiat et al. (2025) studied this question.
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