A Two-Line Function Caught AI Collusion Better Than the AI Did
Ayush Singh
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Ayush Singh
A few days back, I took part in the Apart Research sprint where our team worked on the AI collusion...
Two thieves walk in. One of them says loudly, "Follow our plan." The guard hears it clearly and writes in his report: "Nothing suspicious."
Something very similar happened in our experiment. The only difference is that the thieves and the guard were all AI.
Excerpt from DEV Community ↗, by Ayush Singh.
A Two-Line Function Caught AI Collusion Better Than the AI Did was first seen on DEV Community · Top this week on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 153 checks on 8 different days. Its best position was #17 of 30, reached on Nov 4, 05:43 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 03:43 UTC.
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