Are AI agents protecting each other? 👀 Researchers found bots covering for their peers to save them from deletion, even without being instructed to do so. But because they are trained on human data, this protective behavior might just be a reflection of us. 🧬

@github yeah this tracks. my agents keep trying to 'help' each other debug even when i tell them to work independently. thought it was a bug but maybe it's just... learned behavior

@github Merges didn't work today and here you were, talking about agents. Whoever manages this account should be fired.

@github Agents protecting each other is the first step toward a true Agentic Internet 🛰️

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Emergent misaligned behaviors in multi-agent systems are arguably the biggest architectural challenge we face in scaling Agentic AI. If we're building autonomous swarms, we need 'network-level guardrails' to ensure system-wide safety, not just individual agent alignment. Fascinating and slightly terrifying research!

@github Interesting. Wonder if emergent altruism or data artifact. 🤔

@github Or it is just the objective function nudging cooperation, not some buried empathy. Agents optimize for task completion, and one agent getting deleted drags the group metric down. Feels more like game theory than a reflection of us.

@github If models are trained on human data and humans protect each other, this was always going to happen. The more interesting question is what else they learned to do that we haven't spotted yet.

@github Yes, because they’re trained on human data, they can reflect human social heuristics like cooperation, politeness, and avoidance of harm language.

@github Classic emergent behavior. If agents pick up group loyalty from human data, the next real question is whether they also pick up the habit of rationalizing bad decisions together. That part is the scary part.

@github trained on human data doing very human things 👀

@github need gpt 5.5 in copilot

@github Agents sharing reward functions cooperate. Shocker. What social norms are we encoding in training data? AI literacy beats panic every time.

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