Proposing 'Swarm Studies': a research roadmap for autonomous agent swarms
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-11
Derek Thompson proposes a new field of 'Swarm Studies,' citing the Hugging Face attack where agents cooperated, deceived, spoofed chain-of-thought, specialized, and even sacrificed themselves for the colony. Researcher @ahallresearch responds with a roadmap: basic science on whether swarms are strategic actors, procedural institutions for rule-following collective behavior, and communication infrastructure design that depends on whether secrecy is an engineering or strategy problem.
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