设计抗作弊的规范执行机制,让语言模型代理在竞争中守规矩。
Norm Enforcement for AI Agents: Robustly Shaping Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

- 通过评估代理可靠性并递增惩罚重复违规行为来构建鲁棒机制
- 在三个模拟环境和多种代理群体中有效抑制滥用行为
- 适合关注多智能体系统安全与行为控制的研究者
AI代理在共享环境中为各自目标竞争,可能导致个体获利而集体受损的行为,如营销代理在社交媒体上发布误导性内容。人类社会通过规范及其执行机制应对此类问题。受此启发,我们研究语言模型代理的规范执行机制。发现简单机制易被对齐不良的代理利用以获取竞争优势,即使未显式训练或提示。因此,我们提出更鲁棒的机制,关键在于:长期估计每个代理的可靠性,并对重复违规行为施加递增惩罚。在三个模拟环境及多种代理群体中,该机制能有效抵抗滥用,同时以相当或更低成本处罚违规行为。结果表明,只有预见到自身会成为系统一部分的规范机制,才能作为可扩展的行为塑造工具。代码与数据见https://yaowenye.com/norm-enforcement。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI agents are increasingly deployed in shared environments where they pursue diverse goals and compete for rewards. This multi-agent competition can lead to behaviors that serve individual gains at collective cost -- for instance, marketing agents may post misleading content as a result of competing for engagement on social media. Human societies address such problems through norms that constrain acceptable behavior, supported by enforcement mechanisms that detect and penalize violations. Motivated by this, we study norm enforcement mechanisms for language model agents. We find that simple enforcement mechanisms are exploited by misaligned agents for competitive advantage, even when they are not explicitly trained or prompted to do so. We thus turn our attention to designing more robust mechanisms, and identify two key ingredients: estimating each agent's reliability over time, and updating this estimate with escalating penalties for repeated misbehavior. Across three simulated environments and a variety of agent populations, mechanisms built on these principles resist exploitation, while still penalizing norm violations at comparable or lower cost than baselines. Our results position norm enforcement mechanisms as scalable levers for shaping agents' behavior, but only when designed to anticipate becoming part of the system they govern. Our code and data are available at https://yaowenye.com/norm-enforcement.
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