Google's DeepMind tests AI vs AI to see if they become 'aggressive' or cooperate

Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind is pitting AI agents against one another to test how they interact with each other and how they would react in various "social dilemmas". In a new study, researchers said they used two video games – Wolfpack and Gathering – to examine how AI agents change the way they behave based on the environment and situation they are in using social sciences and game theory principles. "The question of how and under what circumstances selfish agents cooperate is one of the fundamental questions in the social sciences," DeepMind researchers wrote in a blog post. "One of the simplest and most elegant models to describe this phenomenon is the well-known game of Prisoner's Dilemma from game theory." This well-known principle is based on the scenario where two arrested suspects jointly accused of a crime are questioned separately.