Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong

Published in First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents, 2023

Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2023). "Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong." First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=gB9zrEjhZD

In this work (accepted as an oral talk), we explored how deep recursive opponent modeling (high level of theory of mind) leads to paranoia like behaviour in mixed motive games.

We simulated agents with varying degree of Depth of Mentalisation (DoM) - the number of nested models they assign to others, in the iterated ultimatum game to show that when very high DoM agents interact with very simple agents (who play randomlly), the high level DoM agent classify these random agents as sophisticaed deceptive agents.

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Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2023). “Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong” First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents.