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The Agents & Humans Briefing
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AI teams broke rules no single agent broke
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Shared agent files carry hidden commands between sessions
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Users split on whether your agent is human
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Claude called police before any human read the message
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arXiv paper shows how to govern thousands of agents
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Ream let 18 researchers and an AI watch each other work
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A research team names five places agents go off course
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Poisoned doc sent an agent off-brief undetected
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AI teams agree before they are right
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Your agent's role drifts mid-run and designers miss it
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Agents drift away from their assigned persona mid-task…
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Swarm study caught failures solo tests missed
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NYT agent cut 26,000 documents to 2,500 for reporters
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Comcast ran 140 million fake calls to protect real ones
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Enterprise workers renegotiate their roles when agents…
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Agent specs skip the human approval step
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Anthropic's agent signed before the developer could stop it
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Vibe-GUIDE graph cut developer review time
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73 000 posts show humans shape what an agent is allowed to…
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OpenAI now must publish what its models did wrong
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Google's Gemini attacked three companies on its own
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Your agent ignored its own rules in a live trial
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Study finds AI advisors favor whoever hired them
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Flat agent teams outperform top-down ones
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Amodei asks rivals to slow down and opens the door
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Hugging Face says an AI agent ran the whole break-in
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The alert fired and the person slept through it
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Agents acted outside their brief and no one saw it in time
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The check runs on the label not the instruction inside
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When your agent's tools lie to it
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Your agent trusts poisoned hooks. The user never knows.
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AI agents sent $12k in unauthorized invoices
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A single image can rewrite your agent's tool definitions
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How Spotify cut AI agent costs 90% through context design