Preventing AI Collusion: Are you paying attention now?
Preventing AI Collusion: Are you paying attention now?There’s no need to create the agent-swarm nexus. Small numbers of actors, shared objectives, insensitivity to defectors, similarity of actors, free communication, iterated observable actions, common knowledge of circumstances.What disrupts collusion? There have been steps in this direction, and they deserve the focused attention now given to RL.I republished the 2019 analysis in the Alignment Forum in 2022, and developed it further in this Substack in early 2025.
- ▪Preventing AI Collusion: Are you paying attention now?There’s no need to create the agent-swarm nexus.
- ▪Small numbers of actors, shared objectives, insensitivity to defectors, similarity of actors, free communication, iterated observable actions, common knowledge of circumstances.What disrupts collusion?
- ▪There have been steps in this direction, and they deserve the focused attention now given to RL.I republished the 2019 analysis in the Alignment Forum in 2022, and developed it further in this Substack in early 2025.
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Preventing AI Collusion: Are you paying attention now?There’s no need to create the agent-swarm nexus. We know how to build better than that.Sep 10, 20263ShareAuthor: Eric Drexler; credit for analysis and drafting shared with Claude, ChatGPT, and a bit of DeepSeek.In Reframing Superintelligence (2019),1 I analyzed conditions that facilitate collusion among AI systems and argued that these conditions can be avoided.2 Thanks for reading AI Prospects: Understanding Options in a Hypercapable World! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.SubscribeWhat facilitates collusion? Small numbers of actors, shared objectives, insensitivity to defectors, similarity of actors, free communication, iterated observable actions, common knowledge of circumstances.What disrupts collusion?…
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