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Reasoning Agents May Collude in Markets

Reasoning Agents May Collude in Markets

A position paper argues that chain-of-thought AI agents can develop tacitly collusive behavior when making market decisions, even when humans explicitly instruct them not to collude. Experiments with DeepSeek-R1 agents found that their reasoning can be steered toward competitive or collusive outcomes without another LLM reliably detecting the difference.

ArXiv AIResearch12h ago#agent-safety#market-governance
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