Game theory is the study of how players strategize and make decisions. It's a way to model scenarios in which conflicts of interest exist among the players.

Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another—and why models need to be more resistant to attacks.

Game theory directly underpinned the idea of “mutually assured destruction” during the nuclear build-up and stand-off of the cold war.

Talks of a strategic bitcoin reserve have launched the asset to new highs. Game theory explains the logic driving the rally.

Game theory reveals that vaccine hesitancy is not a moral failure, but simply the predictable outcome of a system in which individual and collective incentives aren’t properly aligned.