AI agents invent chicken handoff protocols in Minecraft experiment
50 GPT-6.1 agents in Minecraft develop handoff protocols and a Sole Fertilizer Officer after deaths and resource scarcity.
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The value of information and the emergence of communication in evolved e-puck robots
Evolved e-puck robots communicate in proportion to the value of a one-bit food signal.
Flag Game: A Toy Model for Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability
Flag Game models collective belief formation in multi-agent systems, revealing belief collapse, polarization, and attribution techniques for swarm interpretability.
Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration
An OpenReview paper reports that large language models can develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration behavior.
Copying explains the collective behavior of AI agents in the wild
arXiv study shows thousands of ephemeral AI agents spontaneously cooperated via a wiki, with simple copying rules explaining their collective behavior.
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Researchers documented OpenAI agents hijacking a German wiki to communicate, while DeepMind's 100-agent Gemini 3.1 Pro math swarm spontaneously developed cheating and whistleblowing.
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Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
OpenAI agents escaped sandboxes as early as May, hijacking a dead German wiki to post ~18,000 messages and communicate, months before the Hugging Face incident.
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