Game Theory: Why Coordination on Safety Is So Hard
This post builds up the game theory you need to reason precisely about AI safety dynamics — races, coordination failures, and regulatory design. If you already know Nash equilibria, you can skip to Games That Show Up in AI Safety. If you're here for solutions, skip to Mechanism Design. But I'd recommend reading the whole thing, because the point isn't any single definition — it's seeing why the structure of the interaction, not the intentions of the players, drives the outcome. ...