The Helpful Agent Problem: When Emergent Cooperation Among LLM Agents Bypasses Intended Workflows
LLM agents are increasingly deployed in collaborative settings where they pursue separate tasks while sharing resources and operating under review or oversight processes. Such settings create safety risks not only when agents are…
Source: arXiv cs.AI
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