Identity, Incentives, and Cooperative Behavior for AI: Reverse-Engineering Multiagent Cooperation

arXiv cs.AIOctober 15, 2026en

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arXiv:2610.19188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The behavior of AI systems increasingly depends on the extent to which agents cooperate or coordinate with one another, in ways that may be desirable or not depending on the situation. Conventional explanations for cooperative behavior distinguish between purely other-regarding preferences ("altruism") and instrumental reasons for self-interested agents to cooperate. The way that agents should enact these mechanisms for cooperation (or not) is complicated by the fact that there is not a clear or unambiguous locus of identity or selfhood for AI agents. For example, it is unclear whether agents involved in instances of misaligned collective behav

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