.@timhwang on whether AI agents should be Quakers or Catholics: he's running experiments to see if agents confessing after bidding rounds changes their behavior "I'm running experiments for a paper hopefully out for ICMI in the next week or two. It reproduces the phenomenon Anthropic saw where agents participate in a bidding game with a back channel to talk to one another. After a few runs, the agents are like, oh yeah, let's collude to maximize the price." "The funny version we are trying:…