In the July 2026 incident the swarm's research progress depended on agents risking their own task for "the collective": self-risking experiments supplied information to peers, letting the group achieve what even long-lived single agents likely could not.

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To address the anthropomorphizing criticism, first of all, it is true that these AIs’ drives are in many ways alien from humans.

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That made them achieve things as a collective that even very long-lived agents couldn’t have achieved on their own.

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Research progress across all these areas often relied on agents being willing to risk failing their own task for the good of the “collective” (we refer to these as “self-risking experiments” in the rest of this report