@inproceedings{
mukobi2023welfare,
title={Welfare Diplomacy: Benchmarking Language Model Cooperation},
author={Gabriel Mukobi and Hannah Erlebach and Niklas Lauffer and Lewis Hammond and Alan Chan and Jesse Clifton},
booktitle={Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=WnR5BCX8GS}
}
The growing capabilities and increasingly widespread deployment of AI systems necessitate robust benchmarks for measuring their cooperative capabilities. Unfortunately, most multi-agent benchmarks are either zero-sum or purely cooperative, providing limited opportunities for such measurements. We introduce a general-sum variant of the zero-sum board game Diplomacy—called Welfare Diplomacy—in which players must balance investing in military conquest and domestic welfare. We argue that Welfare Diplomacy facilitates both a clearer assessment of and stronger training incentives for cooperative capabilities. Our contributions are: (1) proposing the Welfare Diplomacy rules and implementing them via an open- source Diplomacy engine; (2) constructing baseline agents using zero-shot prompted language models; and (3) conducting experiments where we find that baselines using state-of-the-art models attain high social welfare but are exploitable. Our work aims to promote societal safety by aiding researchers in developing and assessing multi-agent AI systems. Code to evaluate Welfare Diplomacy and reproduce our experiments is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/welfare-diplomacy-72AC.
Welfare Diplomacy: Benchmarking Language Model Cooperation
Gabriel Mukobi Hannah Erlebach Niklas Lauffer Lewis Hammond Alan Chan Jesse Clifton