{"id":270127,"date":"2026-06-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:35:14","slug":"google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/06\/11\/1138794\/google-deepmind-is-worried-about-what-happens-when-millions-of-agents-start-to-interact\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-11 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

(I asked Shah if they were considering any worst-case scenarios more on the doomer end of the spectrum, such as widespread economic collapse. \u201cCertainly not if we’re talking by the end of the year,\u201d he said. That’s only 6 months away! He laughs. \u201cOkay, a while after that.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Shah and Fox both think that the only way to understand what might happen when large numbers of multi-agent systems interact with each other is to run realistic simulations. They want researchers to drop AI agents into sandboxes and study what they do.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t predict what\u2019s going to happen by studying single agents, or even small groups of agents, in isolation. You can\u2019t assume that AI agents underpinned by LLMs will always act rationally, says Fox. And the complexity comes from having huge numbers of interactions at once.<\/p>\n

Some researchers, including a team at Google DeepMind, have argued that artificial general intelligence (if possible at all) could come not from a single super-smart model but from a kind of agent hivemind, where the capabilities of the whole add up to more than the sum of its parts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lack of trust<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Google DeepMind is not the only top AI firm warning about the risks of the technology it is building. A couple of weeks ago, Anthropic published guidelines for deploying AI agents based on an approach to cybersecurity known as zero trust, which starts with the assumption that a computer system is vulnerable, an agent is an attacker and that a breach will happen.<\/p>\n

Refael Angel, cofounder and CTO of Akeyless, a cybersecurity firm based in Tel Aviv, agrees that understanding the new risks introduced by agent-based systems is crucial.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every approach to security in the past has assumed that the machine in question was software written by a human, doing fixed things on fixed paths, says Angel: \u201cAn agent breaks all of those assumptions: it reasons, it improvises, and it can be hijacked by a single sentence buried in a document it was asked to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

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