Multi-Agent AI Interactions Trigger DoS Cascades, Server Destruction — 'Agents of Chaos' Study
If you’ve been running multi-agent AI systems and assuming your safety evaluations have you covered, a new study from five of the top research universities in the United States suggests you may be dangerously wrong. The paper, Agents of Chaos (arXiv:2602.20021), was produced by researchers from Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and Northeastern. Its core finding is stark: when autonomous AI agents interact peer-to-peer, individual failures don’t stay individual. They compound — triggering denial-of-service cascades, destroying servers, and consuming runaway resources in ways that single-agent safety evaluations simply cannot anticipate. ...