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COMPASS: a new AI-driven situational awareness tool for the Pentagon?

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First, the project attempts to utilize game theory to "ascertain the intent of the adversary." Interestingly, the project assumes that all agents are rational--meaning, I believe, that agents will act to maximize their respective utilities--and that normative theories about how agents will act are important. Explicitly excluded, however, are "descriptive theories that focus on … intangible aspects such as human judgment, irrationality, biases, [and] cognitive limitations." While this may make sense from a streamlined game-theoretic approach, it in no way reflects the real world. Indeed, even game theorists acknowledge the importance of factors that COMPASS excludes, which is why they make ample use of theories of bounded rationality, uncertainty, imperfect information, and the very notion of "adversarial."