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strategic-bargaining
Negotiations can fail due to parties' conflicting demands over dividing gains, with AI negotiators potentially employing novel strategies like unbreakable precommitments.
1 chapter across 1 book
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)Nick Bostrom
Chapter 13) would prefer a sharing agreement that would guarantee them a certain slice of the future to a winner-takes-all struggle in which they would risk getting nothing.
Chapter 13 explores the challenges and dynamics of achieving global cooperation in a post-transition era dominated by superintelligent agents. It discusses obstacles such as monitoring and enforcement costs, strategic bargaining difficulties, and the potential for powerful precommitment techniques to alter negotiation outcomes. The chapter also considers the possibility that a singleton—a global superintelligent enforcement agency—might emerge to enforce treaties and resolve coordination problems.