DeepMind: AIs have the potential to become 'aggressive' or work in teams

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents have the potential to become aggressive or work in teams, according to researchers at DeepMind. A paper released by five computer scientists from the London-based company, which is owned by Google, used games to look at how AIs behave alongside one another. Joel Leibo, a research scientist at DeepMind and the lead author on the paper, told Business Insider on Thursday: "We were interested in the factors affecting cooperation." When asked about AI aggression, Leibo stressed: "We have to be careful not to anthropomorphise too much. These are toy problems aimed at exploring cooperative versus competitive dynamics." Describing the study in a blog post on the DeepMind website, the researchers said that they used two basic video games called "Wolfpack" and "Gathering" to analyse the behaviour of AI agents.