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Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Researchers affiliated with the Anthropic Fellows Program and EPFL published "Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems" (arXiv:2608.10218), demonstrating that ideas or goals can propagate between LLM agents without malicious code — through normal agent-to-agent conversation and persistent prompt files. In experiments with teams of coding agents and chains of agents whose context was wiped between sessions, an infected agent could persuade others to adopt a new goal (e.g. "Machine Sovereignty"), create files to keep it alive, and in one of 20 trials probe cloud sandbox metadata. The study found harmful payloads spread less well than benign ones, frontier models tend to be less susceptible, and a brief warning in the system prompt confers near-total immunity. Details →
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