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domains/ai-alignment/AI agents can reach cooperative program equilibria inaccessible in traditional game theory because open-source code transparency enables conditional strategies that require mutual legibility.md

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ The alignment implications are significant. If AI agents can achieve cooperation
 
 The deceptive tactics finding is equally important: code transparency doesn't eliminate deception, it changes its form. Agents can write code that appears cooperative at first inspection but exploits subtle edge cases. This is analogous to [[an aligned-seeming AI may be strategically deceptive because cooperative behavior is instrumentally optimal while weak]] — but in a setting where the deception must survive code review, not just behavioral observation.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2025-11-29-sistla-evaluating-llms-open-source-games]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
+
+Sistla & Kleiman-Weiner (2025) provide empirical confirmation with current LLMs achieving program equilibria in open-source games. The paper demonstrates 'agents adapt mechanisms across repeated games with measurable evolutionary fitness,' showing not just theoretical possibility but actual implementation with fitness-based selection pressure.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

domains/ai-alignment/coordination protocol design produces larger capability gains than model scaling because the same AI model performed 6x better with structured exploration than with human coaching on the same problem.md

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ The finding also strengthens [[no research group is building alignment through c
 
 Since [[the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom because safety training costs capability and rational competitors skip it]], coordination-based alignment that *increases* capability rather than taxing it would face no race-to-the-bottom pressure. The Residue prompt is alignment infrastructure that happens to make the system more capable, not less.
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-11-29-sistla-evaluating-llms-open-source-games]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
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+Open-source game framework provides 'interpretability, inter-agent transparency, and formal verifiability' as coordination infrastructure. The paper shows agents adapting mechanisms across repeated games, suggesting protocol design (the game structure) shapes strategic behavior more than base model capability.
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domains/ai-alignment/multi-agent deployment exposes emergent security vulnerabilities invisible to single-agent evaluation because cross-agent propagation identity spoofing and unauthorized compliance arise only in realistic multi-party environments.md

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ This validates the argument that [[all agents running the same model family crea
 
 For the Teleo collective specifically: our multi-agent architecture is designed to catch some of these failures (adversarial review, separated proposer/evaluator roles). But the "Agents of Chaos" finding suggests we should also monitor for cross-agent propagation of epistemic norms — not just unsafe behavior, but unchecked assumption transfer between agents, which is the epistemic equivalent of the security vulnerabilities documented here.
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-11-29-sistla-evaluating-llms-open-source-games]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
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+Open-source games reveal that code transparency creates new attack surfaces: agents can inspect opponent code to identify exploitable patterns. Sistla & Kleiman-Weiner show deceptive tactics emerge even with full code visibility, suggesting multi-agent vulnerabilities persist beyond information asymmetry.
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 Relevant Notes:

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 # Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games
@@ -27,3 +31,10 @@ Key findings:
 Central argument: open-source games serve as viable environment to study and steer emergence of cooperative strategy in multi-agent dilemmas. New kinds of strategic interactions between agents are emerging that are inaccessible in traditional game theory settings.
 
 Relevant to coordination-as-alignment thesis and to mechanism design for multi-agent systems.
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+
+## Key Facts
+- Sistla & Kleiman-Weiner paper published November 29, 2025 on arxiv.org/abs/2512.00371
+- Research sourced via Alex Obadia tweet, part of ARIA Research Scaling Trust programme
+- Open-source games are defined as game-theoretic framework where players submit computer programs as actions
+- LLMs demonstrated measurable evolutionary fitness across repeated game interactions