The Rundown AI: …. Strategic Intelligence LLM’s

Posted on July 7, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
LLMs show signs of strategic intelligence
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The Rundown: Researchers just tested whether AI models can be strategic reasoners by running 140,000 Prisoner’s Dilemma decisions — discovering that models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic each developed unique strategic approaches.
The details:
Researchers ran Prisoner’s Dilemma tournaments where agents chose to cooperate or defect, earning points based on mutual choices.Each AI generated written rationales before decisions, calculating opponent patterns and match termination probabilities that influenced their choices.The results found distinct strategies across models, with Gemini being ruthlessly adaptive and OpenAI models acting cooperative even when exploited.Researchers also mapped ‘fingerprints’ showing how models respond to being betrayed or succeeding, with Anthropic’s Claude being the most forgiving.
Why it matters: Seeing LLMs develop distinctive strategies while being trained on the same literature is more evidence of reasoning capabilities over just pattern matching. As models handle more high-level tasks like negotiations, resource allocation, etc., different model ‘personalities’ may lead to drastically different outcomes.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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