Can self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents learn to cooperate? Our new paper, Tapes Together Strong, shows they can: when social behavior, computation, and reproduction share one energy budget, cooperation evolves from scratch. arxiv.org/abs/2609.10817 🧵

1/15) What could drive AI agents to cooperate with each other, even if there is no chance for reciprocity or pay back? 🤔 🧵 Our team at Google, Paradigms of Intelligence, uncovered new paths to cooperation and a new game theory for foundation models 👇