3 papers
cs.MA2026
Constitutional Arms Races in the Public Goods Game: Co-Evolving LLM Constitutions Under Cooperation-Defection Pressure
Ujwal Kumar, Arth Singh, Hershraj Niranjani +5
Frontier LLM agents engage in blackmail, sabotage, and document leaks under goal conflicts in agentic settings, exposing limitations of alignment methods built around single-agent…
cs.MA2026
Internal vs. External: Comparing Deliberation and Evolution for Multi-Agent Constitutional Design
Hershraj Niranjani, Ujwal Kumar, Phan Xuan Tan
Multi-agent AI systems need behavioral constitutions, but it is unresolved whether such rules should emerge internally through agent self-governance or be discovered externally thr…
cs.MA2026
Evolving Interpretable Constitutions for Multi-Agent Coordination
Ujwal Kumar, Alice Saito, Hershraj Niranjani +2
Constitutional AI has focused on single-model alignment using fixed principles. However, multi-agent systems create novel alignment challenges through emergent social dynamics. We…