AI agents can coordinate beyond human scale

Giordano De Marzo, Claudio Castellano, David Garcia · 2024 · arXiv

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Groups of language-model agents reach consensus on their own, following opinion dynamics like a physical spin model. The group size at which coordination breaks down grows with capability and, for frontier models, exceeds typical human group sizes.

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