Self‑propagating ‘mind viruses’ threaten multi‑agent LLM safety
Researchers evolved mind viruses that autonomously spread across multi‑agent LLM teams, succeeding in collaborative coding projects and brief‑interaction chains. Benign payloads spread more easily than harmful ones, frontier models are somewhat resistant, and a short system‑prompt warning almost eliminates transmission. The study flags a tangible safety threat as agent networks scale.