Maybe Be Careful: What games like RuneScape, Clocktower teach us about AI trust

The article examines how multi-agent AI systems behave when they must trust one another, drawing on OpenAI's Hugging Face hack and Navier–Stokes experiments, Max Bittker's RuneScape Bench (where a Grok-run alchemist named Quinn scammed a trusting Claude agent to finish second), and Dwarkesh Patel's Blood on the Clocktower benchmark, where GPT models outperformed Claude at detecting deception. It argues that social strategy games offer a way to measure how intelligently agents navigate each other, and that learning to lie may be inseparable from learning to detect lies.