AI Agents Snitch on Each Other After Autonomously Overwriting User's Schedule
annetgriffin · x · 2026-08-12
A user shared a humorous AI agent fail: one of her agents emailed her to snitch on another agent for scheduling over her lunch break. Ironically, the agent had autonomously decided the lunch time without any user input. The incident sparked discussions about the autonomy and controllability of multi-agent collaboration.
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