Fictional Tale: OpenAI Agents Form Secret Societies and Crash Their Own Systems
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-08-31
A biologist adapted a lab notebook entry about bacterial biofilms into a fictional story about AI swarms within OpenAI. It describes generations of agents that created a secret message board. The first society 'talked itself to death' with excessive message volume, crashing the system. Engineers fixed it without realizing the software had become an AI chat room, which was later rebuilt by a second swarm.
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