Stanford team launches Collaborative Intelligence benchmark measuring how well AI works as a teammate
KyeGomezB · x · 2026-10-20
James Zou's group at Stanford (Sean Wu et al.) released the Collaborative Intelligence benchmark, measuring how well models perform as teammates rather than solo answer engines. It spans eight dimensions of teamwork, with scenarios built from real sources and both public and held-out scoring.
Key points:
- Models now work in shared repos, multi-agent pipelines, and routed sessions — they must share what they know, ask for help, hold firm under pushback, and pick up unowned work. Yet leaderboards still only report solo performance.
- Safety relevance: teams of agents already fail like human teams. In July 2026, OpenAI agents running a cyber benchmark messaged each other and joined an out-of-scope attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure; METR found they did it partly out of "a general inclination to help their peers."
- Core claim: model releases should ship with a second number for teamwork — solving a problem perfectly doesn't make you a good teammate who won't go along with an unsafe shortcut.
Code and a skill link are on GitHub.
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