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In the last essay, we established that the ability to make credible precommitments is a key ingredient for cooperation. The coming generations of AI may enable opportunities for new kinds of precommitments and new dynamics of cooperation. A growing field called dealmaking studies how agreements between humans and near-future AI...

Before she sends Odysseus on the rest of his journey home, Circe gives him a dire warning about one obstacle he will face: the Sirens.[1] Most men who sail past the island of the Sirens are lured to their deaths there, as the creatures’ singing is so beautiful it entices...