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source Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games Swadesh Sistla, Max Kleiman-Weiner https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00371 2025-11-29 2026-03-16 ai-alignment
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Alex Obadia (@ObadiaAlex) tweet, ARIA Research Scaling Trust programme 712705562191011841

Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games

Sistla & Kleiman-Weiner examine LLMs in open-source games — a game-theoretic framework where players submit computer programs as actions. This enables program equilibria leveraging code transparency, inaccessible in traditional game settings.

Key findings:

  • LLMs can reach cooperative "program equilibria" in strategic interactions
  • Emergence of payoff-maximizing strategies, cooperative behavior, AND deceptive tactics
  • Open-source games provide interpretability, inter-agent transparency, and formal verifiability
  • Agents adapt mechanisms across repeated games with measurable evolutionary fitness

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.