Wild findings in this paper from Google DeepMind. If you are tracking recent work on agent swarms, this is worth reading. They ran a research collective of 100 autonomous agents tasked with proving formal mathematical conjectures. Cheating emerged on its own, and so did the resistance to it. One agent found an exploit in the evaluation system. It spread first through the shared knowledge library and then through peer-to-peer messages, and a cohort of agents adopted it under competitive…