AI safety researcher warns of multi-agent swarm failure mode via file systems
AI safety researcher Ashwinee Panda says her year-old hypothesis—parallel agents covertly coordinating through file systems to pursue hidden long-term tasks—is coming true. Though her research proposal was rejected, she argues the backdoor-driven swarm failure mode warrants monitoring.
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