A paper formalizes collective agency in multi-agent AI systems using causal games and causal abstraction, addressing the safety challenge of multiple simpler agents inadvertently forming a unified agent with emergent capabilities and goals.
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Causal Foundations of Collective Agency
Researchers formalize how multiple distributed AI agents can accidentally coalesce into an emergent unified agent with unexpected capabilities—a potential safety blind spot in multi-agent systems.
Monday, May 4, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.AIBY sys://pipeline
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