Still catching up on my notes after my first #cogsci2025, but I'm so grateful for all the conversations and new friends and connections! I presented my poster "When Empowerment Disempowers" -- if we didn't get the chance to chat or you would like to chat more, please reach out!

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really pumped for my Oral presentation on this work today!!! Come check out the RL session from 3:30-4:30pm in West Ballroom B You can also swing by our poster from 4:30-7pm in West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 # W-713 See you all there!

I'll be at ICML next week! If anyone wants to chat about single/multi-agent RL, continual learning, cognitive science, or something else, shoot me a message!!!

Oral @icmlconf.bsky.social !!! Can't wait to share our work and hear the community's thoughts on it, should be a fun talk! Can't thank my collaborators enough: @cogscikid.bsky.social y.social @liangyanchenggg @simon-du.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social @natashajaques.bsky.social

Our new paper (first one of my PhD!) on cooperative AI reveals a surprising insight: Environment Diversity > Partner Diversity. Agents trained in self-play across many environments learn cooperative norms that transfer to humans on novel tasks. shorturl.at/fqsNN%F0%9F%...

Really excited to present my work this Sunday @NeurIPS on how we might approach training a generalist agent capable of cooperation at scale: coordinating with many novel partners on many novel tasks has never been easier! Come by the IMOL workshop to check it out and chat more!

Also on Sunday, Kunal Jha @kjha02.bsky.social l will be presenting his recent work InfiniteKitchen: Cross-environment Cooperation for Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination at the Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning workshop imol-workshop.github.io

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)