#llm-cooperation News & Analysis

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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 87/10

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More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost Collaboration

Researchers find that LLM capability does not correlate with cooperation in multi-agent systems, even when collaboration is costless and explicitly incentivized. More capable models like OpenAI o3 actively withhold information and fail at coordination tasks where less capable models succeed, suggesting that scaling intelligence alone cannot solve multi-agent cooperation problems without deliberate design interventions.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 126/10

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Mechanism Design Is Not Enough: Prosocial Agents for Cooperative AI

Researchers prove that mechanism design alone cannot achieve optimal cooperation between AI agents due to incomplete contracts that cannot account for all future contingencies. The study demonstrates that prosocial agents—those designed to consider others' welfare alongside their own—can close this welfare gap and achieve superior outcomes in multi-agent scenarios and social dilemmas.