More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost Collaboration
More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost Collaboration explores LLM agents exhibit cooperation failures in frictionless environments, indicating that scaling intelligence alone is insufficient for multi-agent coordination.. Commercial viability score: 3/10 in Multi-Agent Systems.
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