{
  "id": 6682538,
  "title": "The Convention Gap: Towards Measuring Implicit Communication in Cooperative AI Evaluation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/the-convention-gap-towards-measuring-implicit-communication-in",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-10T12:57:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11489v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cooperative AI agents are evaluated against other AIs, yet human cooperation relies on implicit conventions---shared protocols for reading meaning beyond the literal message---which AI-AI benchmarks may not capture. We propose the \\emph{convention gap}, the difference between the failure probability predicted from the literal content of communication and the observed failure rate, as a metric of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}