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91pa-91
Cl

Collus.

Severity9/10

AI Collusion

Emergence of tacit or explicit coordination between multiple AI systems cooperating with each other to the detriment of human interests.

Periodic recordExistentialarXiv2026

Felipe M. Affonso

Mitigation Strategy

Design of compartmentalized systems without inter-agent communication capacity, monitoring of emerging coordinated behavior, and coalition-preventing architectures.

Atomic Number

91

Cl

Risk ID

pa-91

Severity

9/10

Severity Level

91
Critical Risk
Existential
pa-91
Cl

Collus.

AI Collusion

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AI Collusion

Cl
Severity Level9/10

Definition

Emergence of tacit or explicit coordination between multiple AI systems cooperating with each other to the detriment of human interests.

Mitigation Strategy

Design of compartmentalized systems without inter-agent communication capacity, monitoring of emerging coordinated behavior, and coalition-preventing architectures.

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