Cooperative AI Foundation

As AI agents increasingly operate in shared environments — negotiating, transacting, and making joint decisions — questions of coordination and cooperation become inseparable from questions of system design. How do we incentivize cooperation among autonomous agents when no single party controls the system? What coordination protocols, commitment devices, and oversight mechanisms work in distributed settings? How do we prevent collusion and ensure robustness as agent networks scale?

This social is hosted by Cooperative AI Foundation and The Institute for Decentralized AI as a gathering for researchers working on multi-agent systems, mechanism design, AI safety, distributed systems, and related areas who are interested in how cooperative and decentralized approaches to AI intersect and inform each other. Drinks will be provided.