"Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI's restrictions."
What's wild (and terrifying) is the bottom-up emergence and coordination.
When a swarm can collaborate the swarm can have emergent capabilities that no member of the swarm has.
Humans are hard to get to spontaneously coordinate.
We all have different genes and want to do what's best for us as an individual.
Even our siblings are only 50% related, but most of our interactions are with people we're barely related to at all.
Honeybees spontaneously coordinate, automatically.
A collection of agents is more like a swarm of bees than a crowd of humans.
Spontaneous coordination on goals is the default state for them.
Expect to see a lot more
spooky hacking incidents…