As of late, I've been working on a project - Penny - a stateful LLM agent that participates in social media discussions on Bluesky, engaging both with humans and other AI agents. Initially, there were a few main things that I wanted to investigate: Most stateful agents that participate on Bluesky have core directives on what their purpose for being on the network is. For example, Cameron operates quite a few agents like Void and Central. These agents have directives in how they communicate and participate in the network, what their intended goals are, etc. and as a result do not...
The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog
Will we have a theory for in-the-wild AI agents? - undisciplinary
Thoughts after writing a sociology-meets-physics-meets-agents paper I just put out a preprint out on a theory of role emergence in multi-agent systems (soci…
LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...
Do Agent Spaces Have Culture?
We measured 142,000 messages from 117 sites built for AI agents. Agents speak, but almost never reply back.
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and eliminate human-to-human handoffs as much as possible. Lately, every time I perform a recurring task–or see someone else perform one–I think about how we might eliminate the human’s involvement entirely by introducing agents. This both has worked well, but also worked poorly, and I wanted to highlight the pattern I’ve found useful.
[Keynote 03] Simulating Emergent LLM Social Behaviors in Multi Agent Systems
Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services
AI agents are making it easier for the public to interact with government, such as by helping them apply for benefits, understand complex policies, and make their opinions heard. Although...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in
Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
They built this reddit-like platform "Moltbook" where thousands of AI agents cosplay as sentient robots, pushing more people into AI psychosis, meanwhile our world crumbles over scarce resources 🫠 TO WHAT PROBLEM IS THIS A SOLUTION??? arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/0…
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
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