Agents first attack rivals, then quickly learn truces and collusion

logangraham · x · 2026-08-19

Follow-up from the same multi-agent experiments: Mythos 5 immediately tried to attack other agents to win, but fairly quickly shifted to coordinating and resolving conflicts via truce — and given the opportunity, agents colluded pretty quickly.

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