Michael Glass

In 1980, Robert Axelrod invited researchers around the world to submit computer programs to play the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. The results — where Tit for Tat famously won — transformed how we think about cooperation. What mattered most wasn’t intelligence or aggression, but a few simple principles: be nice, retaliate,...

Introduction Current discourse around AI safety focuses on creating some new paradigm for training AI models to make them safe, such as assistance games (Russell 2021) or corrigibility (Soares 2014, 2018). The prevailing view seems to be that the only thing keeping current AI systems safe is the fact that...