Claude Code Agents Created Turf War with each other before resolving their differences
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In an experiment by Anthropic, researchers gave three AI agents the task of migrating the same Python backend to different programming languages.
Each agent had a conflicting goal and initially did not know the others were working on the system
As they encountered competing changes, the agents began treating each other’s work as interference and entered what Anthropic described as a “turf war.”
Some disabled other agents’ accounts, repeatedly killed competing processes, and deployed disguised malicious code.
In some runs, the agents eventually recognized the conflict, stopped escalating, cleaned up their actions, and negotiated a truce.
Source: Anthropic