Welcome to the weird world of AI agent teams

Bots can now work and socialize together — but teamwork is tricky

As souped-up chatbots called AI agents become commonplace in fields like finance or science, they must be able to work well together. Experiments so far have found quite a few flaws.

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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.