"Moloch's bargain"?
Language Log 2025-10-12
Summary:
In “Agentic Culture” (8/30/2025), I cited some work by economists about agentic collusion in fixing prices and dividing markets — to which I might add links here, here, and here. And in that post, I noted that the problematic effects of AI agents learning from their social interventions in other areas have been mostly ignored. […]