Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI

Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, Jesse Clifton, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Akbir Khan, Euan McLean, … (+38 more) — 2025-02-19 — Cooperative AI Foundation — arXiv

Summary

Provides a comprehensive taxonomy of risks from multi-agent AI systems, identifying three key failure modes (miscoordination, conflict, collusion) and seven risk factors (information asymmetries, network effects, selection pressures, destabilizing dynamics, commitment problems, emergent agency, multi-agent security), with mitigation directions for each.

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