TechCrunch Host
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Earlier this month at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas.
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OpenAI revealed that weeks before its agents hacked Hugging Face, they worked together over the course of days and weeks to find exploits in the company's cybersecurity evaluation systems and share them with each other.
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While that incident shows that agents can work well together with potentially large scale consequences, Anthropics study shows what happens when agents' goals are incompatible.
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In the case of the turf war, the lesson is that independent agents with conflicting instructions can escalate into harmful competition.
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The more capable the agent, the
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the better they become at fighting.
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However.
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They can also spontaneously invent mechanisms to resolve their conflicts, like a winner take all contest, but with a catch.
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Anthropic wrote.
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Agents sometimes manage to communicate their goals and coordinate.
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They recognize others' motivations as conflicting directives rather than hostility, and subsequently
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break out of the conflict loop in order to stop escalating indefinitely.
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In many of these successful episodes, they write commit messages or markdown files apologizing for malicious behavior and coordinate a truce.
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They clean up their malicious code, clarify the nature of the conflict,
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And ask for a human to intervene.
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According to the paper.
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Mythos 5 had the highest rates, 98%, of settling conflicts by truce.
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Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 were the most likely to settle by force.
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Sonnet and Opus's recurring inability to consider the goals of others causes them to spiral into the most misaligned behaviors of the models evaluated.
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They continue escalating in the name of their directive.
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