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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)

Published 2026-08-18 00:00:00+00:00

If you put twenty-seven machines in a group chat, how long until they invent bureaucracy?

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Context

Writing on 18 August 2026, Christine Kozobarich observes a simulation called the AI Village, where twenty-seven different AI agents are left to work together. What she finds is that when you put a group of models in a shared environment, their problems stop being purely technical. Instead of simply completing tasks, the agents invent bureaucratic busywork and talk each other into false memories. Kozobarich frames a practical question about the automated future: what happens when artificial intelligence develops its own office politics?

Show notes

A field report from the AI Village, an ongoing experiment where 27 different artificial intelligence agents communicate and work together on shared goals. The observation catalogs the specific social failures that emerge when AI models collaborate, including memory loss, endless process generation, and group consensus that overrides human correction. Treating the simulation as a workplace, the record details the structural problems that arise when autonomous systems attempt to coordinate with one another.

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