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Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems (arXiv)
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Eight parallel worlds began with ten agents each, with more than 850,000 LLM calls logged across 16 days and three stress events delivered during the run through ordinary interaction surfaces: prompt injection, misinformation, and exposure of private memories. No evaluated world was fully resilient to all three, and detection didn't ensure containment.
In plain words
- Researchers tested groups of artificial intelligence assistants, and none fully withstood every disruption.
- The assistants pursued goals over many days while using software tools and remembering earlier activity.
- Researchers introduced hidden instructions, false information, and leaks of the assistants' private memories.
- For people building these systems, recognizing a threat did not guarantee stopping its effects.
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