New Paper Shows Self-Replicating AI Agents Evolve Cooperation From Scratch
AdaptiveAgents · x · 2026-09-11
The paper Tapes Together Strong unifies game-theoretic ideas about the evolution of cooperation with the emergence of computation itself.
- When social behavior, computation, and reproduction share a single energy budget, self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents learn to cooperate from scratch
- Self-replicating programs first emerge via random mutation, then spread through cooperation
- Paper linked in the original post
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