{
  "id": 7698699,
  "title": "Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/agentic-societies-need-a-social-harness",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T17:57:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17527v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An agentic society is a collection of AI agents that coordinate autonomously across trust boundaries, on behalf of different principals whose objectives may only partially align. We show experimentally that in agentic societies even honest, competent agents often fail to reach satisfactory outcomes with existing harnesses and messaging primitives, and that faulty or malicious agents can stall…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}