Microsoft Research: Red-Teaming a Network of Agents — Safe Agents Don't Guarantee a Safe Ecosystem

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Microsoft Research published new work examining what breaks when AI agents interact at scale, finding that individually safe agents can create emergent network-level risks when interconnected. The research argues that multi-agent systems require fundamentally new red-teaming approaches beyond single-agent evaluation, as cascading failures and adversarial exploitation of inter-agent communication create attack surfaces invisible at the component level.