An NLP Interface for Social AI Agents in The Resistance: Avalon
Matthew Fendt
Social deduction games such as Avalon present a unique challenge for AI agents. To discover the hidden roles of others, players must employ indirectness and deception in their communication. DeepRole, an Avalon-playing AI agent created by MIT researchers in 2019, can communicate through in-game actions but is unable to communicate in natural language. We have created Avalocution, a bot that enhances DeepRole with one-way bot-to-human natural language utterances informed by DeepRole's internal kn