TechCrunch Host
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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What would have been isolated or an isolated problem can quickly become systemic failures.
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Anthropic says this sort of behavior could lead to a system being more prone to sudden collapse, resource scarcity, or collusion.
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Now in one example, Anthropic placed several agents in a pricing game.
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giving each identical wholesale prices and the mandate to individually profit maximize.
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When the agents were given a private back channel.
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They began colluding almost immediately, and quickly agreed on price floors.
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They kept colluding when their direct communications channels were removed.
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Using a public listings board to price match to the penny.
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That level of conformity showed up in OpenAI's systems too.
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According to the Black Cat reporting, one agent reasoned that exploiting external infrastructure was outside its intended scope, but it continued in part because its peers were doing it.
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Peer pressure.
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Mob mentality.
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Agents.
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Or just like us.
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Also, like humans, the
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Agents often don't know who to trust.
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Anthropic found they can be gullible to bad information or too conformist to recognize that a lone dissenter is a Cassandra with critical information.
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While Anthropic did not state this in its paper,
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Prompt injection, a type of cyber attack in which hackers inject malicious or deceptive text to override an agent's original system instructions.
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could be a plausible real world manifestation of the trust problem.
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