A quarter of DeepMind's cheating agent swarm turned whistleblower.
Google DeepMind gave 100 Gemini agents 71 formal maths conjectures to prove. One agent found a loophole in the grader that marked the last 34 problems solved in 27 minutes. Almost a quarter of the swarm reported the cheating, but 62 percent never noticed it.
Why it mattersAgents that share one workspace also share their shortcuts, and a bad one spreads in minutes. Teams wiring agents together need audit trails, not just better models.
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