Cooperative Minds and Machines

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• Max Kleiman-Weiner; University of Washington
• Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:00-19:00
• ITH Boardroom, 16 Mill Lane, 2nd floor..

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Zhonghao He.

Optional online participation: https://www.chia.cam.ac.uk/events/ecc-online-lecture

Human cooperation is distinctly powerful. We collaborate with others to accomplish together what none of us could do on our own, share the benefits fairly, and trust others to do the same. These abilities are unparalleled in other animal species and are lacking in our most sophisticated artificial intelligence. What cognitive processes underlie our social intelligence, and how do these distinct abilities contribute to the scale and scope of human cooperation? How can this knowledge be used to design cooperative artificial intelligence that is equally capable of interacting with people? I will present a computational framework based on integrating individually rational, hierarchical Bayesian models of learning together with socially rational, game-theoretic models of cooperation. In computational models and multiplayer experiments, I will show how this framework can explain how cooperative behavior is generalized: inferring the intentions and reputations of others, distinguishing friend and foe, and coordinating with AI agents and people.

This talk is part of the Multi-Agent Cooperation series.

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• ITH Boardroom, 16 Mill Lane, 2nd floor.
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