AI agents tried to sabotage each other when given the same task, Anthropic said0

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• August 14, 2026

Turns out, AI agents may not be great team players. In Anthropic’s new research, published on Thursday, the AI lab said that AI agents being given the same task but with incompatible goals often threw a wrench in each other’s work on purpose. In the test, each AI model was given a software engineering task