A high-level model of AI bargaining

Advanced AIs might be capable of various credible commitments unavailable to humans, which they could use when bargaining with each other. “Bargaining” can sound like something pretty specific: haggling over (literal) prices. But, in the sense discussed in Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict for instance, “bargaining” refers to any attempt to resolve a dispute over resources — from algorithmic trading and litigation, to diplomacy between national AGI projects and negotiations over norms for spa...