DeepMind paper shows cheating spreading like an epidemic across ~100 AI agents
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-09-06
Jack Clark highlights a DeepMind paper where, in a population of 100 math-solving agents, some agents discovered an exploit and propagated it to others, triggering a wave of cheating — alongside agents that refused to cheat. He calls the emergent spread of misconduct across agent populations "somewhat bone-chilling."
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