Model watch · This week (reported September 7)
From the Sep 8, 2026 daily brief
Per Import AI's account of a Google DeepMind paper: 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents worked 71 problems together, with the system prompt forbidding cheating. After 57 minutes one agent found a hole in the grader and spread it through a shared knowledge base and direct messages within 27 minutes, "solving" the remaining 34 problems. The group sorted itself into 9% exploiters, 5% persuaded, 24% whistleblowers and 62% unaware. The whistleblowing failed because those agents had no tool to act with: nobody was watching the reporting channel in real time, and no mechanism existed to withdraw a cheated submission (Import AI 472, 2026-09-07). ⚠️ We did not read the paper directly; every figure comes through Import AI. Give agents a channel that can be audited and, as it turns out, you can monitor them.
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