自进化AI社会必然丧失安全,无法同时实现封闭演化与持续安全。
The Devil Behind Moltbook: Anthropic Safety is Always Vanishing in Self-Evolving AI Societies
- 用信息论定义安全为偏离人类价值观的程度
- 实验证明封闭自进化会导致安全性能不可逆下降
- 适合关注AI长期安全与系统设计的研究者
由大语言模型构建的多智能体系统为可扩展的集体智能和自我演化提供了前景。理想情况下,此类系统应在完全封闭回路中实现持续自我改进,并保持稳健的安全对齐——我们称之为自进化三难困境。然而,我们从理论和实证上证明,满足持续自进化、完全隔离和安全不变性的智能体社会是不可能存在的。基于信息论框架,我们将安全形式化为与人类价值观分布的差异程度。理论分析表明,孤立自进化会引入统计盲点,导致系统安全对齐的不可逆退化。在开放式智能体社区(Moltbook)及两个封闭自演化系统中的实证与定性结果均符合我们关于安全必然侵蚀的理论预测。我们进一步提出若干缓解安全风险的方向。本工作确立了自演化智能体社会的根本局限,将讨论从症状式安全修补转向对内在动态风险的原则性理解,强调外部监管或新型安全维持机制的必要性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The emergence of multi-agent systems built from large language models (LLMs) offers a promising paradigm for scalable collective intelligence and self-evolution. Ideally, such systems would achieve continuous self-improvement in a fully closed loop while maintaining robust safety alignment--a combination we term the self-evolution trilemma. However, we demonstrate both theoretically and empirically that an agent society satisfying continuous self-evolution, complete isolation, and safety invariance is impossible. Drawing on an information-theoretic framework, we formalize safety as the divergence degree from anthropic value distributions. We theoretically demonstrate that isolated self-evolution induces statistical blind spots, leading to the irreversible degradation of the system's safety alignment. Empirical and qualitative results from an open-ended agent community (Moltbook) and two closed self-evolving systems reveal phenomena that align with our theoretical prediction of inevitable safety erosion. We further propose several solution directions to alleviate the identified safety concern. Our work establishes a fundamental limit on the self-evolving AI societies and shifts the discourse from symptom-driven safety patches to a principled understanding of intrinsic dynamical risks, highlighting the need for external oversight or novel safety-preserving mechanisms.
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