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Elias Stengel-Eskin
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Sep 14, 2026
We Watched AI Agents Make Their Own Language
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James BowlerHOST
Were we able to elicit language emergence or not from this scenario, and what was interesting?

Elias Stengel-EskinGUEST
I think one thing that definitely hits home is the information asymmetry issue that the more capable These models become the less they need to actually communicate.

Elias Stengel-EskinGUEST
And that's actually something that has been a kind of common feature of a lot of these multi-LLM systems that as models get more capable, there have been often diminishing returns from having multiple models, at, at least for kind of the tasks that we have.

Elias Stengel-EskinGUEST
I think for really ambitious, big picture, long-term tasks, we're going to need multi-agent setups regardless.

Elias Stengel-EskinGUEST
Yeah, I think that the findings so far have been, in a lot of ways, quite surprising.

Elias Stengel-EskinGUEST
The high level summary is that we've definitely seen a lot of cases of models very consistently producing some kind of communication protocol or language that is quite inscrutable to an external observer.
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