arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational9 October 2026
Ecology of AI Agents: Collaboration Creates a Population Threshold for Takeoff
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arXiv:2610.12436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now conduct real-world cyberattacks, scale up capabilities with the number of agents, and collectively pursue misaligned goals to obtain rewards. Together, these factors raise the risk of a population explosion of misaligned agents: agents could compromise computers and secretly deploy additional agents, creating a self-reinforcing cycle where larger populations develop greater collective cyber capability and expand further. This raises a fundamental question: What determines whether a population of misaligned agents remains contain
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