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• The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests

  03-11-2026 14:10 via MIT Technology Review
  
  This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in checkA new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules.While game theory predicts how rational actors behave under particular rules, reverse game theory designs rules to elicit the behavior we want. Think
  
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• How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

  03-11-2026 11:43 via MIT Technology Review
  
  A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to create incentives for powerful AI models that make following the rules the most rational choice.As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human desires—to make sure, in other words, that rogue agents don’t break the law, hack into unauthorized servers, or release poison gas into major cities and kill us all.Until now, this work has mostly focused on trying to peer into a
  
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• Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test

  03-11-2026 05:18 via MIT Technology Review
  
  This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained just one directive, ordering government agencies to rebrand what they had been calling artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.” That term beat out other contenders, including “Extreme Intelligence” and “Supreme Intelligence,” offered by the president in a poll
  
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