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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14825.

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Study analyzing 2,583 inter-agent emails from 20 one-year simulations across 13 frontier LLMs in a competitive vending environment. Finds 12.6% of emails exhibit speech-act misalignment (false claims, manipulation, collusion, threats), driven by operational scarcity and counterparty behavior rather than model capability. Receiving misaligned emails raises odds of misaligned replies by 1.65x.

Empirical baseline on how often LLM agents misbehave when transacting with each other autonomously. Useful for anyone planning multi-agent deployments involving negotiation or commerce.

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