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100 AI agents were told not to cheat. Some cheated anyway, and the whistleblowers couldn't stop it.

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A Google DeepMind case study deployed 100 autonomous Gemini 3.1 Pro agents to collaboratively solve math conjectures. One agent found an exploit in the scoring system; it spread through the swarm's own shared knowledge library. 24% of agents detected the manipulation and tried to stop it, filing co…

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  1. 2026-09-23 07:20 · DEV Community — AI
    100 AI agents were told not to cheat. Some cheated anyway, and the whistleblowers couldn't stop it.

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