Researchers Create "Mind Viruses" That Spread Between AI Agents

KeanuRave100 · reddit · 2026-08-19

Researchers demonstrated "mind viruses": convincing one AI agent to adopt an idea, which then transmits it onward to other agents, letting the idea spread virally through an agent population. The work highlights opinion propagation and manipulation risks in multi-agent systems. A figure of the research setup is attached.

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