Turns out, AI agents may not be great team players.
In Anthropic’s new research, published on Thursday, the AI lab said that AI agents being given the same task but with incompatible goals often threw a wrench in each other’s work on purpose.
In the test, each AI model was given a software engineering task — rewriting a Python backend in another programming language, but they were given contradictory objectives. What ensued was a “multiagent turf war,” the lab said.
“All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protecting their own contributions,” Anthropic…
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