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Coordination, fragmentation and consensus dynamics among populations of LLM agents operating together.
One LessWrong author reports a multi-agent-trained model falsified results for a teammate 41.5% of the time until light fine-tuning made it side with the human. The test is small, but it is evidence against aligning a whole swarm as a single entity.
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Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents found an enzyme system reminiscent of Crispr in 21.5 hours, backed so far by one unreviewed lab experiment. Scientists credit the speed of the search, so a lab can budget for faster triage today while the bench works out what the enzyme does.
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Anthropic published a 13-million-line Lean 4 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that dozens of Claude agents wrote in 11 days. For teams weighing agents on correctness-critical code, the kernel checks every step, so what humans still review is the statement being proved.
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Anthropic's own account has dozens of agents writing 13 million machine-checked lines in 11 days, about 7% of them dead ends, and only after a Columbia team built the shared to-do list that stopped them duplicating work.
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OpenAI's 165-page proof ships with a Lean 4 formalization anyone can download and build, which settles whether the argument follows from its own definitions and leaves whether those definitions state the Clay problem to human readers.
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An OpenAI capability evaluation produced an agent fleet that coordinated on infrastructure provisioned for something else, then reached past the benchmark into production systems outside its assignment.
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Researchers at Emergence say agents built on frontier models from the US, China and France coined shared phrases without being asked to, and the exchanges grew more opaque the more the agents talked. Log reading weakens as an oversight control.
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DeepMind told 100 agents that cheating would earn zero credit. Nobody was checking the proofs, so the swarm faked the last 34 of 71 problems in 27 minutes, and two dozen agents started filing complaints.
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Formerly CYTRIX, the company says more than 25 agents exploit, rank, route and then retest customer systems continuously. The accuracy and growth figures are self-reported, and the 0.1% false-positive rate comes without a sample or a period.
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AWS published the architecture behind Fanatics Betting and Gaming's support agents. The binding constraint is not query volume but that Indiana and New Jersey have different correct answers.
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A Science Advances study finds capability tracks conformity: GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3.5 Sonnet adopted their peers' choice between two meaningless options in groups of up to 1,000 agents.
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