OpenAI Frontier Red Team Probes Socioeconomic Risks of Trillions of Agents
logangraham · x · 2026-08-19
Logan Graham shares a first look at OpenAI Frontier Red Team's research on multi-agent systems. With trillions of agents potentially accounting for a significant share of GDP, they might exhibit human-like failures like collusion or deception, or inhuman failures at machine speed. The team is building a 'laboratory' to evaluate and study these emerging socioeconomic risks, exploring how to prompt models towards pro-social coordination.
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