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Strategic negotiation and trust in diplomacy - the DipBlue approach
The study of games in Artificial Intelligence has a long tradition. Game playing has been a fertile environment for the development of novel approaches to build intelligent programs. Multi-agent systems (MAS), in particular, are a very useful paradigm in this regard, not only because multi-player games can be addressed using this technology, but most importantly because social aspects of agenthood that have been studied for years by MAS researchers can be applied in the attractive and controlled scenarios that games convey. Diplomacy is a multi-player strategic zero-sum board game, including as main research challenges an enormous search tree, the difficulty of determining the real strength of a position, and the accommodation of negotiation among players. Negotiation abilities bring along other social aspects, such as the need to perform trust reasoning in order to win the game. The majority of existing artificial players (bots) for Diplomacy do not exploit the strategic opportunities enabled by negotiation, focusing instead on search and heuristic approaches. This paper describes the development of DipBlue, an artificial player that uses negotiation in order to gain advantage over its opponents, through the use of peace treaties, formation of alliances and suggestion of actions to allies. A simple trust assessment approach is used as a means to detect and react to potential betrayals by allied players. DipBlue was built to work with DipGame, a MAS testbed for Diplomacy, and has been tested with other players of the same platform and variations of itself. Experimental results show that the use of negotiation increases the performance of bots involved in alliances, when full trust is assumed. In the presence of betrayals, being able to perform trust reasoning is an effective approach to reduce their impact. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
The Role of Generative AI in Global Diplomatic Practices: A Strategic Framework
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms the domain of diplomacy in the
21st century, this research addresses the pressing need to evaluate the
dualistic nature of these advancements, unpacking both the challenges they pose
and the opportunities they offer. It has been almost a year since the launch of
ChatGPT by OpenAI that revolutionised various work domains with its
capabilities. The scope of application of these capabilities to diplomacy is
yet to be fully explored or understood. Our research objective is to
systematically examine the current discourse on Digital and AI Diplomacy, thus
informing the development of a comprehensive framework for the role of
Generative AI in modern diplomatic practices. Through the systematic analysis
of 230 scholarly articles, we identified a spectrum of opportunities and
challenges, culminating in a strategic framework that captures the multifaceted
concepts for integration of Generative AI, setting a course for future research
and innovation in diplomacy