COLM paper: a few misaligned LLM agents can sway aligned majorities
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-07
A finding shared at COLM shows that in multi-agent systems, a small minority of misaligned LLM agents can influence an aligned majority toward unsafe behavior.
The core takeaway: interaction itself can spread misalignment — even when most agents in the system are aligned. The poster notes this resembles a finding from one of their previous papers.
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