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Game Theory

Definition

Game theory is the mathematical study of strategic interaction between rational agents, where each agent’s best move depends on what the others do. In AI it shows up wherever multiple models, players, or principals interact — from RLHF training games to multi-agent systems to alignment.

Episodes covering this

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Two Copies of Gemini Cooperated in a Game Where Betrayal Always Pays
A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference
Meulemans, Wołczyk, Weis et al. · Google·19 min·Aug 05, 2026
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Language Models Compute the Rational Move, Then Override It
What Suppresses Nash Equilibrium Play in Large Language Models? Mechanistic Evidence and Causal Control
Lekeas, Stamatopoulos · DreamWorks Animation·29 min·May 03, 2026

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