OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude regularly answer our questions. And souped-up versions of these chatbots, called AI agents, take actions on their own, helping people with appointments, coding and more. AI agents are starting to contribute to science and finance, often working together in carefully organized teams.
In the business world, endless webinars and guides explain how to welcome AI agents into a workplace. Most of this material focuses on how people can work effectively with AI agents. But as these bots become more common and more capable, they’ll also have to work well with each other.
And so far, experiments into bot teamwork have revealed some serious flaws.