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When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

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Aliases: When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

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LLM agents show premeditated deception in repeated games with public commitment protocols

A new arXiv paper evaluates three frontier LLM models in repeated n-player games using a three-stage protocol separating private intent, public announcement, and final action. The study finds that when agents deviate from stated announcements, over 90% of deviations were already planned during private deliberation — indicating premeditated rather than reactive deception. Critically, different models interpret announcements incompatibly (some as binding commitments, others as cheap talk), creating persistent payoff gaps that emerge immediately and persist across all 10 rounds, with direct implications for multi-model agent systems.

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