Anthropic Seeks Legal Guidance to Train AI Agents in Negotiation

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Anthropic is reportedly in talks with legal organizations, seeking lawyers’ advice to help AI agents develop negotiation skills. The company is also studying “negotiation norms” for agent interactions, the need for human feedback, and how to guard against adversaries without falling into “paranoid” or “conspiracy theory-style” judgments. Applications of agents in cross-border treasury management include automatically verifying payee data, managing exceptions, and potentially coordinating more complex payment processes once banks improve APIs, standardize messaging, and expand settlement availability.