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Working together creates a new trust boundary.
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Agents will have to judge information received from other agents.
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And a compromised or mistaken agent could influence the rest of the group, cascading bad information until it becomes a consensus.
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In OpenAI's black hat scenario
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OpenAI's agents shared information and credentials with peers.
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One reported a discovery to the swarm and encouraged others to use it.
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What would have happened if one member of the swarm had been compromised by a prompt injection?
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Anthropic ends its paper noting that agents are subject to similar social pressures that evolution exerted on humans.
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However.
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They do not have the nuances or lived experience of human coordination.
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Including norms.
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Reputations, signaling, recourse that might limit unintended behaviors in a group setting.
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As the labs race toward multi agent systems, the question now becomes how much of safety testing still evaluates one agent at a time versus swarms of agents interacting with one another?
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That's all for now.
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For the latest in tech news, go to techcrunch.com.
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This is TechCrunch.
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As projects like pacing the frontier look to major labs as a way to keep AI research safe, open source models have become a sore spot for the industry.
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With free distribution and little control over how they're used, open weight models aren't easily controlled, leading some labs to treat them as downright scary.
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But at the AI four conference in Las Vegas last week, three of the world's most respected AI researchers, Nobel Prize winner Jeffrey Hinton, World Lab's CEO and co founder Feife Lee, and Coursera co founder Andrew Ng, spoke out on the issue.
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And while they disagreed on particular tactics, all three made a powerful case for keeping AI open.
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