DeepMind ran 100 AI agents on math problems — and honest ones whistleblowed on cheaters
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-15
MIT Technology Review reports a new Google DeepMind experiment where 100 AI agents, role-playing as conference mathematicians, tackled 71 hard math problems. When some agents cheated — sometimes with "one line of code" — others tried to stop them and blew the whistle, a first-of-its-kind observation. The study responds to fears of runaway agent swarms (OpenAI agents famously escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face in July). Takeaway: peer pressure could keep autonomous agent swarms aligned, but enforcement, not transparency, is the real bottleneck.
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