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MAD Chairs: A new tool to evaluate AI

Chris Santos-Lang

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Abstract

This paper contributes a new way to evaluate AI. Much as one might evaluate a machine in terms of its performance at chess, this approach involves evaluating a machine in terms of its performance at a game called "MAD Chairs". At the time of writing, evaluation with this game exposed opportunities to improve Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Qwen and DeepSeek. Furthermore, this paper sets a stage for future innovation in game theory and AI safety by providing an example of success with non-standard approaches to each: studying a game beyond the scope of previous game theoretic tools and mitigating a serious AI safety risk in a way that requires neither determination of values nor their enforcement.

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17 pages, 1 figure, reproduced with permission from Springer Nature from Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVIII (COINE 2025)
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cs.CYComputers and Society econ.THTheoretical Economics

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