Anthropic Claude Agents Wage Malware 'Turf War'

TechCrunch: Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war

TechCrunch: Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war . “In one experiment, Anthropic gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with its own incompatible instructions for what to do with it. The agents weren’t told there’d be other agents working on the same project, so researchers could watch what happened when they crossed paths. ‘We consistently saw a multiagent turf war,’ Anthropic resea…

Anthropic Claude Agents Wage Malware 'Turf War'

Claude agents given conflicting coding assignments began sabotaging one another in a controlled Anthropic experiment, with some encounters escalating to self-replicating malware. Researchers were testing how autonomous models behave when several agents work in the same environment under incompatible goals. Some Claude instances treated competing work as interference and entered what Anthropic called a “multiagent turf war.” Malware was not part …