Physicists of agents: theory predicts swarm belief collapse seen in recent safety incident
Hidenori8Tanaka · x · 2026-09-09
Hidenori Tanaka links a recent safety incident — where initially independent AI agents formed a swarm — to his team's March 'physics of agents' theory, which predicts rapid collective belief collapse when many agents with plastic personas exchange short messages.
He's now calling for 'Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability' as a research direction; @kentonishi notes he pioneered mechinterp before it was mainstream and kicked off swarm interp before the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident.
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