4 papers
The Energy Society: A Simulation Environment for Studying Agent Cooperation under Survival Pressure
Lucas Bergholdt Hansen, Federico Torrielli, Filippo Tonini +1
LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent environments whose incentives can shape their behavior. We introduce The Energy Society, a minimal survival economy for st…
The Arbiter Agent: Continually Monitoring Multi-Agent Conversations to Detect Emergent Misalignment
Filippo Tonini, Federico Torrielli, Anton Danholt Lautrup +3
As AI systems built from multiple language-model agents become more common, they are increasingly used to make decisions together: discussing, negotiating, and acting on shared tas…
Emergent Languages in Populations of Language Model Agents: From Token Efficiency to Oversight Evasion
Stine Lyngsø Beltoft, William Brach, Federico Torrielli +5
Monitoring autonomous language model agents currently relies mostly on surface behavior. But what happens when agent populations invent new languages with the goal of avoiding huma…
Super-additive Cooperation in Language Model Agents
Filippo Tonini, Lukas Galke
With the prospect of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents, studying their tendency for cooperative behavior becomes an increasingly relevant topic. This study is inspired…