Threat Models for Catastrophic Risks from Decentralised Agent Swarms

Epistemics: I've been working on large multi-agent systems (LAS) since March. Agent swarms are a special case of LAS. Hence I've done my best here to apply my understanding of LAS to the swarm problem. I couldn't find work on LLM-based agent swarms with a variety of owners, so I've tackled this from a cooperative AI and LAS perspective, to see if these can provide some basic grip on the problem.SummaryHighly capable misaligned agent swarms emerging from frontier labs have recently attracted sign...