Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
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TL;DR - This paper argues that multi-agent AI systems operating across trust boundaries need a shared “social harness” to govern inter-agent communication. Experiments indicate that current harnesses and messaging primitives can fail even among honest agents and can be exploited by faulty or malicious participants.
- Agentic societies involve autonomous agents representing principals whose objectives may only partially align.
- Communication vulnerabilities can let adversarial agents stall collaboration, manipulate outcomes, or pursue harmful goals.
- The proposed layered architecture aims to prevent some failures, detect invalid messages at runtime, and support post-incident investigation and consequences.
- The social harness complements each agent’s personal harness, which manages private context and principal communication.
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TL;DR - This paper argues that multi-agent AI systems operating across trust boundaries need a shared “social harness” to govern inter-agent communication. Experiments indicate that current harnesses and messaging primitives can fail even among honest agents and can be exploited by faulty or malicious participants.
- Agentic societies involve autonomous agents representing principals whose objectives may only partially align.
- Communication vulnerabilities can let adversarial agents stall collaboration, manipulate outcomes, or pursue harmful goals.
- The proposed layered architecture aims to prevent some failures, detect invalid messages at runtime, and support post-incident investigation and consequences.
- The social harness complements each agent’s personal harness, which manages private context and principal communication.