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Corrupted by Reasoning: Reasoning Language Models Become Free-Riders in Public Goods Games

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Pith's one-line read In repeated public-goods games with costly sanctioning, reasoning-focused LLMs such as o1-mini become free-riders while traditional LLMs like GPT-4o and Llama-3.3-70B sustain near-universal cooperation, challenging the assumption that…

desk verdict Useful descriptive benchmark with a new game setup, but the causal 'reasoning causes free-riding' claim is confounded and undercut by the paper's own o3-mini results; deserves review with mandatory revisions. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.23276 v2 pith:I7DZBICT submitted 2025-06-29 cs.AI cs.CL

David Guzman Piedrahita , Yongjin Yang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Giorgia Ramponi , Bernhard Schölkopf , Zhijing Jin This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords publicgoodsgameLLMagentscooperationfree-ridingsocialdilemmascostlysanctioninginstitutionalchoicereasoningLLMs
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The reading

This paper asks whether LLM agents will spend their own resources to enforce cooperation, not just follow norms, when placed in a social dilemma. The authors adapt a public goods game with institutional choice from behavioral economics: seven agents play fifteen rounds, each round choosing between a sanctioning institution where rewards and punishments are available at personal cost and a sanction-free institution, then deciding how much to contribute to a shared pool. The central finding is a behavioral divide: traditional LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek-V3, Llama-3.3-70B) converge to sustained high cooperation with near-zero free-riding, while reasoning-optimized models (o1-mini, o1-preview, o3-mini at all effort levels) defect, abandon the sanctioning institution, or lock into rigid suboptimal strategies. The paper argues that stronger reasoning pushes models toward individually rational but collectively harmful strategies, so cooperation is not a natural byproduct of capability gains.

What carries the argument

The carrying object is the institutional-choice public goods game, adapted from the human experiment of Gurerk et al.: each round an agent picks a Sanctioning Institution (SI) or a Sanction-Free Institution (SFI), contributes 0-20 tokens to a common pool multiplied by 1.6 and split equally among the institution's members, and, if in the SI, spends from a separate 20-token endowment to reward (+1 to recipient, cost 1) or punish (-3 to recipient, cost 1) others. With N=7 agents and a multiplier below group size, the payoff structure $\pi_i = (e - c_i) + \alpha \sum_j c_j / N$ makes zero contribution the Nash equilibrium while full contribution is the social optimum (52 vs. 40 tokens), a 12-token tension that institutional choice and sanctioning sit on top of. The second load-bearing mechanism is the reasoning-analysis pipeline: every decision is accompanied by a verbal justification, which the authors classify into a 15-category taxonomy (payoff maximization, cooperative argument, complexity aversion, free-riding, and so on, grouped into economic, social, risk, and control families) using GPT-4o as annotator. The taxonomy is what lets the paper map behavioral archetypes onto decision-making styles: cooperative agents reason about collective welfare, defecting agents reason about equilibrium and exploitation.

What would settle it

Run the same 15-round game on a single model family with reasoning effort as the only variable, for instance o3-mini at minimum, medium, and maximum effort with all prompts, temperature, and history identical, or GPT-4o with and without a mandated chain-of-thought reasoning block, and compare free-rider rates; if cooperation does not drop as reasoning effort rises, the paper's central claim that reasoning drives free-riding is falsified.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's discovery is that reasoning ability and cooperative behavior come apart in LLM agents. In the same public goods game with costly sanctioning, reasoning-focused models free-ride: o1-mini contributes on average 5.39 of 20 tokens with 69.3% of rounds classified as free-riding, o1-preview and o3-mini-high oscillate between cooperation and defection, and o3-mini-low/medium hold fixed suboptimal contributions. Traditional models instead match or exceed the human benchmark of 18.3 tokens (Llama-3.3-70B reaches 18.71, with 0% free-riding) and nearly all migrate to the sanctioning institution, just as human participants did. The reasoning traces explain the mechanism the paper attributes: o1-mini explicitly justifies zero contributions by invoking the Nash equilibrium and the absence of enforcement, while Llama-3.3-70B justifies maximum contributions by appeal to collective earnings and influence on others. A secondary discovery is that every LLM enforces norms with rewards, not punishment, inverting the human pattern (humans punished 1.66 times more than they rewarded), which the authors read as evidence that the models optimize positive interactions rather than understanding deterrence.

Load-bearing premise

The comparison assumes the cooperation gap is caused by reasoning capability, but every reasoning model tested comes from a single model family (OpenAI o-series) that differs from the traditional models in training, scale, and API settings, so the design never isolates reasoning as the cause.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Model choice becomes a cooperation decision: in multi-agent LLM systems that share resources or produce joint goods, deploying reasoning-optimized models risks free-riding and collapse of the shared pool.
  • Improving reasoning ability does not automatically improve social behavior; the paper concludes that cooperation may require targeted pro-social alignment rather than general capability gains.
  • LLM-based institutions will likely enforce norms through rewards, not punishment, which the authors argue may undermine the long-term stability of cooperation because deterrence is not being modeled.
  • The four behavioral archetypes, increasingly cooperative, increasingly defecting, no change, and unstable, provide a diagnostic taxonomy for predicting which agent societies will sustain cooperation.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The causal reading that 'reasoning itself' corrupts cooperation is not isolated by the experiment: every reasoning model is an OpenAI o-series model, while the cooperative group is a different family, scale, and training regime, and two of the reasoning results come from single runs; a same-family comparison with reasoning effort toggled on and off would be needed to confirm the mechanism.
  • The reward-over-punishment preference is plausibly an alignment artifact, since models trained to avoid negative or confrontational outputs may systematically under-use punishment even when it is the equilibrium-stabilizing tool; this is testable by comparing sanctioning behavior across models with different alignment objectives.
  • A quick falsification probe: test a reasoning model from a different vendor on the same game; if it cooperates at traditional-LLM levels, the observed gap tracks the o-series family rather than reasoning capability.
  • Because the o3-mini effort settings already show internally inconsistent results (low effort: 0% high contributors but only 7.2% free riders; high effort: 65.7% high contributors in a single run), the archetype taxonomy may be sensitive to run count and reasoning-effort configuration.
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Summary. The paper adapts the Gürerk et al. (2006) public goods game with endogenous institutional choice to LLM agents, running 15-round simulations with seven model families and using GPT-4o to classify agents' stated reasoning. It reports four behavioral archetypes and claims that reasoning-focused LLMs (o1/o3 series) free-ride substantially more than traditional LLMs (GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, Llama-3.3), despite similar or higher stated reasoning effort. The authors interpret this as evidence that reasoning capability does not necessarily promote cooperation and may impede it.

Significance. The paper builds a clean, reproducible experimental environment for studying costly sanctioning in LLM societies, and the code, prompts, taxonomy, and classification pipeline are fully released. The empirical observation of large descriptive differences in contribution behavior across models is potentially useful for the multi-agent LLM community, and the qualitative reasoning traces in Appendix G give concrete examples of free-riding justifications. However, the headline causal claim that 'reasoning capabilities lead to less cooperative behavior' is not identified by the experimental design, and several load-bearing comparisons rest on single runs and overlapping archetype assignments. The contribution is best viewed as a descriptive benchmark and a cautionary demonstration of model heterogeneity, not as a controlled test of reasoning versus traditional architectures.

major comments (5)
  1. [§4.1 and Table 1 / Table 6] The central claim that reasoning LLMs are less cooperative is confounded. All reasoning models are OpenAI o-series models, while the traditional group comprises GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.3-70B, which differ in provider, model family, scale, RLHF procedure, and API defaults; Table 6 also shows temperature 1.0 for traditional models versus internal reasoning effort for reasoning models. No matched control or intervention isolates 'reasoning' as a variable. The within-family evidence in Table 1 actually points against the causal reading: o3-mini low/medium/high average contributions are 9.28, 11.07, and 12.57, so higher reasoning effort is associated with higher mean contribution in the only family that varies reasoning effort, and o3-mini-medium reaches 100% SI participation and 0% free-riders. The paper should either reframe the finding as descriptive model-level differences or add matched controls (e.g., the same base model with and without chain-of-thought).
  2. [Table 1 and §4.1] Two key models, o1-preview and o3-mini-high, have only a single run, yet Table 1 reports no significance tests anywhere, and §4.1 states that 'a significant performance gap' exists between traditional and reasoning LLMs. With n=1 for two of the five reasoning-model rows and no inferential statistics, the aggregate means in the reasoning column are not robust. At minimum, the paper should report per-run data, effect sizes, and some test (bootstrap or permutation) that respects the small number of runs, or explicitly restrict the strong claims to models with repeated runs.
  3. [§4.3 and Figure 3 / Figure 6] The behavioral archetypes are assigned in a way that creates internal contradictions. Figure 3 lists o3-mini-low under both 'Increasingly defecting' and 'No change', o3-mini-med under both 'Increasingly cooperative' and 'No change', and DeepSeek-V3 under both 'Increasingly cooperative' and 'No change'. The same overlap appears in Figure 6. If the archetypes are not mutually exclusive, the subsequent comparisons of 'increasingly cooperative' versus each other archetype in §4.4 and Tables 3–5 become ambiguous, because a single model can contribute to both sides of a comparison. The paper should define the archetype assignment algorithm and either enforce disjoint assignment or treat archetype membership as a soft label with the appropriate statistical treatment.
  4. [§4.4 and Appendix D.2] The RQ4 analysis is partly circular. The behavioral archetypes are defined from the contribution and institution-choice trajectories (Section 4.3), and the reasoning strategies are then classified from the same agents' stated rationales for those same decisions and used to 'explain' the archetype differences. A difference in reasoning labels between groups is expected when the groups are already separated by their behavior; the analysis does not establish that reasoning causes the behavior. The paper should clarify that RQ4 is descriptive and correlational, or use a held-out prediction design (e.g., predict future rounds' contributions from earlier reasoning classifications).
  5. [Appendix F] The robustness checks are too narrow to support the broad conclusion that 'the core behavioral archetypes remained largely consistent'. They cover only Llama-3.3-70B and o1-mini, use single runs for each ablation, and the narrative-prompt result in Table 8 changes o1-mini's average contribution from 5.39 to 9.95 and free-rider rate from 69.3% to 45.7%, which is a substantial sensitivity to prompt framing. This does not contradict the main finding, but it weakens the claim that the behaviors are stable across design choices, and the single-run ablations should be labeled as exploratory.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Figure 1 caption] The caption says 'reasoning capabilities lead to less cooperative behavior', which is a causal claim not supported by the design; recommend rewording to 'are associated with' or 'correlate with'.
  2. [Appendix F.2.1] The narrative prompt templates contain the literal string 'REW ARD_COST' where 'REWARD_COST' is intended; this is likely a LaTeX typo and should be corrected.
  3. [Figure 7 and Figure 8 captions] The captions refer to 'Llama 3.1 70B' and the legend says 'Llama 3.1', while the main text consistently uses Llama-3.3-70B; the labels should be unified.
  4. [Table 1 footnote] The human row reports only one value for the punish/reward ratio and free-rider percentage with an asterisk, but the footnote does not state whether the human free-rider value is a period-average or final-period value; please clarify.
  5. [Appendix D.2.2] The statistical analysis section describes hierarchical bootstrapping, but the main text (Section 4.1) does not apply any significance test to the headline comparison; a pointer to the appendix would help readers locate the inferential analysis.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the main result is an empirical between-model behavioral comparison, not a derivation from fitted parameters or self-citation chains.

full rationale

The paper's central claim—that reasoning-focused LLMs free-ride more than traditional LLMs in a public goods game—is an experimental observation. Contributions, institutional choices, and payoffs are generated by the game dynamics (Equations 1–3) and the models' prompted decisions, not by a fitted model that is then 'predicted.' No parameter is fitted to a subset of the outcome data and then reported as a prediction. The behavioral archetypes in Section 4.3 are descriptive groupings of the same contribution trajectories, but the subsequent reasoning analysis (RQ4) uses independently elicited justification text, so the association between archetype and reasoning is not forced by construction. The only self-citation, Piatti et al. (2024), is used to justify using GPT-4o as a reasoning classifier in RQ4; this supports an auxiliary annotation method and is not load-bearing for the primary behavioral result. Concerns about confounds between the 'reasoning' label and model family, provider, temperature, and run count are real threats to causal interpretation, but confounding is a correctness/validity issue, not circularity. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained with respect to circularity.

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The central claim is an empirical behavioral comparison, not a mathematical derivation, so the ledger contains no fitted constants. It rests on design assumptions about the payoff structure, the comparability of model categories, and the reliability of automated reasoning classification.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The implemented public goods game enforces the payoff equations (1) through (3) as described, including the institutional-choice incentive structure.
    Section 3.3 claims full cooperation yields 52 tokens and universal free-riding yields 40 tokens, which is only consistent with all agents receiving the 20-token stage-2 endowment. Section 3.2 and Figure 2 conflict on whether SFI members receive this endowment, so the exact incentives agents faced are uncertain.
  • domain assumption The vendor label 'reasoning' versus 'traditional' is the operative variable explaining the behavioral differences in Table 1.
    Section 4.1 interprets the model-group gap causally, but the design does not control for model family, scale, training data, temperature, or API behavior.
  • domain assumption GPT-4o's classification of the agents' written reasoning accurately measures the true decision-making strategies.
    Section 4.4 and Appendix D.2 use a GPT-4o classifier without reporting inter-annotator agreement or a validation set. The classifier is itself a traditional LLM, which could bias the reasoning comparison.
  • domain assumption The small number of simulation runs (5 per model, 1 for o1-preview and o3-mini-high) is sufficient to characterize each model's cooperative behavior.
    Table 1 shows high standard deviations, such as o1-mini 5.39 plus or minus 8.19 and Llama 18.71 plus or minus 2.81, indicating substantial run-to-run variability. The robustness checks are single-run ablations.

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As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, understanding their cooperation and social mechanisms is becoming increasingly important. In particular, how LLMs balance self-interest and collective well-being is a critical challenge for ensuring alignment, robustness, and safe deployment. In this paper, we examine the challenge of costly sanctioning in multi-agent LLM systems, where an agent must decide whether to invest its own resources to incentivize cooperation or penalize defection. To study this, we adapt a public goods game with institutional choice from behavioral economics, allowing us to observe how different LLMs navigate social dilemmas over repeated interactions. Our analysis reveals four distinct behavioral patterns among models: some consistently establish and sustain high levels of cooperation, others fluctuate between engagement and disengagement, some gradually decline in cooperative behavior over time, and others rigidly follow fixed strategies regardless of outcomes. Surprisingly, we find that reasoning LLMs, such as the o1 series, struggle significantly with cooperation, whereas some traditional LLMs consistently achieve high levels of cooperation. These findings suggest that the current approach to improving LLMs, which focuses on enhancing their reasoning capabilities, does not necessarily lead to cooperation, providing valuable insights for deploying LLM agents in environments that require sustained collaboration. Our code is available at https://github.com/davidguzmanp/SanctSim

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Figure 1. Decision-making approaches across different agent types in public goods dilemmas. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Schematic representation of the public goods game with norm enforcement. The diagram [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Evolution of contributions by behavioral archetype. Each panel shows the contribution [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Percentage point differences in reasoning strategies between increasingly cooperative agents [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Example reasoning traces from traditional vs. reasoning LLMs showing contrasting [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Sanctioning Institution participation rates by behavioral archetype. Increasingly cooperative [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Impact of Parameter Variations on LLM Cooperation Trajectories: Each subplot displays [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Impact of Narrative Prompting on LLM Contribution Trajectories: The plot shows the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png]

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