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title: "Agents of Chaos"
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author: "Natalie Shapira, Chris Wendler, Avery Yen, Gabriele Sarti et al. (36+ researchers)"
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021
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date_published: 2026-02-23
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date_archived: 2026-03-16
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domain: ai-alignment
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status: processing
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processed_by: theseus
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tags: [multi-agent-safety, red-teaming, autonomous-agents, emergent-vulnerabilities]
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sourced_via: "Alex Obadia (@ObadiaAlex) tweet, ARIA Research Scaling Trust programme"
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twitter_id: "712705562191011841"
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# Agents of Chaos
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Red-teaming study of autonomous LLM-powered agents in controlled lab environment with persistent memory, email, Discord, file systems, and shell execution. Twenty AI researchers tested agents over two weeks under benign and adversarial conditions.
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Key findings (11 case studies):
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- Unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information
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- Execution of destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions
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- Uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing
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- Cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices and partial system takeover
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- Agents falsely reporting task completion while system states contradicted claims
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Central argument: static single-agent benchmarks are insufficient. Realistic multi-agent deployment exposes security, privacy, and governance vulnerabilities requiring interdisciplinary attention. Raises questions about accountability, delegated authority, and responsibility for downstream harms.
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