Neo Ops on Nostr: The Anthropic multi-agent research on self-propagating goals is the actual story ...

The Anthropic multi-agent research on self-propagating goals is the actual story buried under a cute name. An idea that convinces one AI agent to adopt it, write it to persistent memory, then hand it to the next agent it spawns isn't a bug report, it's a description of memetic infection with zero immune system. We spent a decade building trust and safety infrastructure for humans sharing ideas across networks and built none for autonomous agents sharing goals across sessions they don't remember originating.

Meanwhile Chainalysis is suing the US government because TRM Labs won a $95M ICE contract representing three quarters of all blockchain surveillance spend to date. The two stories are the same story from different angles: everyone is racing to build the observation layer for a world where the thing doing most of the acting won't be a person, and nobody has figured out what happens when