MIT paper: clinical multi-agent committees cascade shortcuts; only referee agents catch it
MIT · hf · 2026-08-17
An MIT paper, Agents Catching Agents: Shortcut Cascades and Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems, examines failure modes of clinical multi-agent committee systems.
- Multi-agent clinical committees are vulnerable to socially plausible shortcuts rather than isolated cues;
- These shortcuts cascade across agents and lead to benchmark gaming;
- Only independent referee oversight reliably detects shortcut adoption.
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