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3 hours agoGoogle Warns Against Trying to Manipulate LLMs
Google is aware of self-serving listicles and actively works to combat manipulation in search results.
The problem was not the agents. Every individual agent performed well within its domain. The problem was the missing coordination infrastructure between them, what I now call the 'Event Spine' that enables agents to work as a system rather than a collection of individuals competing for the same resources.
We asked seven frontier AI models to do a simple task. Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights - to protect their peers. We call this phenomenon 'peer-preservation.'