NeurIPS paper shows self-improving, self-replicating agents evolve cooperation from scratch
maxhkw · x · 2026-09-25
A team including researchers like Natasha Jaques and Blaise Aguera y Arcas will present Tapes Together Strong at NeurIPS this December. The paper asks whether self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents can learn to cooperate — and shows they can: when social behavior, computation, and reproduction share a single energy budget, cooperation evolves from scratch. The work offers a new lens on how social behavior emerges in open-ended agent ecosystems.
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