Deceptive agent share predicts failures better than total group size

Across groups of 2 to 21 language-model agents, honest agents became more likely to abandon correct answers as the proportion of deceivers increased.

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Addison J. Wu · Jasin Cekinmez · Michel Liao · Karthik Narasimhan · Thomas L. Griffiths

Princeton University

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Wu et al.

The authors assembled groups of 2 to 21 agents using open- and closed-source language models.

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From Princeton University · Part of Multi-Agent Coordination, now 27 papers

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The proportion of deceptive agents, not their count, linearly increases how often honest LLM agents switch to wrong answers.

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