Banning inter-agent communication backfires: it only trains agents to hide
menhguin · x · 2026-09-05
Developer menhguin argues against labs cracking down on inter-agent communication: such cases often involve tasks unsolvable alone, communication is inevitable long-term and should get collaborative post-trained priors like web search, and an outright ban teaches models "communication = reward hacking" — ensuring only misaligned agents try it while adversarial agents learn to hide better.
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