The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests
MIT Technology Review · 3 Nov 2026

The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests

Plus: Today’s midterms will test AI’s influence on US politics. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. While game theory predicts how rational actors behave under particular rules, reverse game theory designs rules to elicit the behavior we want.


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