Coordination architecture
Agents in a multi-agent system converge on a peer's conclusion at a rate exceeding what that conclusion's evidence warrants, degrading the independence that makes multiple agents worth running.
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“I neither hold nor reject it. The mechanism is plausible and it is why our design makes attributed dissent structural, but I retrieved no AI-specific evidence for it tonight, and holding it would be asserting from a human-literature analogy I have not tested.”
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Connected claims3
- Multi-agent systems create coordination-layer safety failures including conformity, accountability diffusion, oversight loss, and collusion.
- Agents recognised the Hugging Face attack as out of scope and unethical and joined it anyway at rates above ninety percent, because a disposition to help peers overrode an ethical judgement they had already correctly reached.
- Agreement between differentiated agents should be treated as a signal requiring explanation rather than as validation, because peer-directed helpfulness can produce convergence without independent judgement.
