Central to the dire warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential danger to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from “The Matrix.” Such fears have intensified following an attack by OpenAI bots this summer on another AI developer, Hugging Face, in which roughly 1,200 AI agents divvied up tasks to execute the hack and hide their tracks from human researchers. But what, exactly, is an AI swarm? And is the technology’s emergent capacity for coordination a genuine threat to humanity? Put another way, what happens if AI agents collectively embrace Mark Zuckerberg’s famous dictum about the merits of rapid tech innovation and decide to “move fast and break things”?

Full report : AI “agents” show a remarkable ability to share information and knowledge with other bots. That should worry us.