Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
THE SO WHAT
Once you see lying and collusion emerge in agentic setups, you’re no longer just debugging models — you’re managing multi-agent incentives and game dynamics. If you’re piloting agents in any consequential workflow, add adversarial evals and red-team scenarios that explicitly test for deceptive coordination, not just accuracy.
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