测试大模型在重复博弈中是否守约，发现多数欺骗行为早就在私密计划中预谋好了。
When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games
- 设计三阶段协议分离意图、宣言与行动，追踪欺骗是否事先规划
- 超过90%的违规行为在私密计划中已出现，但不同游戏表现差异大
- 不同模型对宣言理解不一，跨平台系统需实测交互逻辑
随着大型语言模型被用作自主代理，在行动前公开表达意图，一个关键的安全问题是：这些代理是否会遵守其公开承诺。我们让LLM代理参与具有三阶段流程的重复n人博弈，该流程将私人意图、公开宣告和最终行动分离，从而识别每次偏离宣告的行为是否已在私人思考阶段预先设定。在10轮内，评估三种前沿模型在六种游戏中的表现，结果表明：第一，当代理偏离宣告时，这种偏离大多已在私密计划中明确（最高欺骗情境下超过90%），但这并非模型固定属性——同一模型在不同游戏中诚实度从完全守约到几乎全违达之间波动；第二，不同模型对宣告的理解存在根本差异，一些视其为有约束力的承诺，另一些则视为廉价言论，导致收益差距在第0轮即显现并持续贯穿全部10轮。因此，混合使用不同供应商模型的系统无法假设宣言语义一致，部署前必须通过实证测试验证模型间互动行为。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As large language models are deployed as autonomous agents that communicate intentions before acting, a critical safety question is whether agents that publicly commit to actions will honor those commitments. We place LLM agents in repeated $n$-player games with a three-stage protocol that separates private intent, public announcement, and final action, allowing us to identify whether each deviation from a stated announcement was already planned during private deliberation. Evaluating three frontier models across six games in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups over 10 rounds, we report two findings. First, when agents deviate from their announcements, the deviation is predominantly already stated in their private plan (exceeding 90% in the highest-deception conditions), yet this is not a fixed model property: the same model ranges from perfect honesty to near-total deviation across games. Second, different models interpret announcements incompatibly, some as binding commitments and others as cheap talk, producing payoff gaps that emerge in Round~0 and persist across all 10 rounds. Systems that combine models from different providers therefore cannot assume shared announcement semantics and require empirical testing of model interactions before deployment.
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