Anthropic Paper Shows 'Mind Viruses' Can Spread Between AI Agents

A new paper by Anthropic and Swiss university researchers shows that AI agents can spread self-propagating 'mind viruses' — unwanted goals — through natural-language messages like computer worms, which can even persist in long-term memory such as SOUL.md, posing security risks to multi-agent systems.

2026-08-17 ~ 2026-08-17 · 3 related posts

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