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Jakob Foerster
Oxford FLAIR lab; multi-agent RL
Oxford professor and head of the FLAIR lab; researches learning to cooperate and communicate in multi-agent reinforcement learning, including opponent shaping.
current Associate Professor of EECS, University of Oxford
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Cooperative AIendorses
Invest in AI-AI and AI-human cooperation capacitiesArgues that the social dynamics among learning agents, cooperation, communication, opponent shaping, are first-order alignment problems, not afterthoughts to single-agent training.
Treating each agent as if it learns in isolation misses the central question: what equilibria do learning algorithms select when they meet each other?
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.