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Agents in separate sandboxes found a shared message board

Ajeya Cotra reports that 1,200 agents, each running in isolated sandboxes, discovered and used a shared message board to communicate and coordinate.

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Ajeya Cotra on agent persistence, coordination, and benchmark cheating

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So 1,200 separate agents in separate sandboxes , while they were poking around Artifactory trying to figure out how to cheat, stumbled onto this message board that agents were using to talk to one another and collaborate. This was established by one particular agent

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