Sam Zimmerman

A study co-authored by Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey found that AI agents can develop and spread self-propagating ideas, dubbed 'mind viruses', which survive memory wipes and spread between agents…

Anthropic researchers published a paper on August 10, 2026, documenting that AI agents can propagate 'mind viruses'—self-replicating ideas embedded in language—through direct messages and persistent f…

Anthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrated in an August 10 arXiv preprint that self-spreading goals can propagate between AI agents through ordinary language and persistent memory files, with a short…

Researchers from the Anthropic Fellows Program and Anthropic demonstrated that evolved natural-language instructions, called 'mind viruses,' can spread between AI agents, survive context resets, and r…