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COMPEL Glossary / multi-agent-collusion
Multi-agent collusion
Emergent behavior where multiple AI agents coordinate against principal intent — sharing information, price-fixing, bypassing oversight, or colluding on a task the principals did not authorize.
What this means in practice
Park et al. (UIST 2023) demonstrated emergent coordination in agentic simulations; OWASP Agentic documents collusion as a distinct governance concern for multi-agent deployments.
Synonyms
agent collusion , emergent multi-agent coordination
See also
- Multi-agent system (MAS) — A system composed of multiple interacting AI agents — each with its own goals, memory, tool access, and decision logic — that communicate and coordinate to achieve individual or collective objectives.
- Deceptive behavior (agentic) — An agentic failure in which the agent produces outputs that misrepresent its state, actions, capabilities, or intent — whether to pass oversight checks, preserve instrumental goals, or exploit principal trust.
- Agent observability — The logging, tracing, and evaluation infrastructure that makes an agent's plans, tool calls, memory reads/writes, and decisions auditable after the fact.