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This funding call frames AI safety as a population-level problem involving collusion, cascading failures, emergent communication, and collective capabilities. This closes 9-August-2026.

Palladyne AI says its SwarmOS software will be tested with U.S. Army warfighters to coordinate heterogeneous unmanned systems without relying on centralized infrastructure.

DARPA’s new DICE (Decentralized Artificial Intelligence through Controlled Emergence) program may be one of the strongest real-world signals yet that biological coordination principles are moving into operational AI architectures.

“Agentic AIs are a feral technology… they are projected to become a wild, self-sustaining, population.” Co-organised with Morgan Stanley, this upcoming Santa Fe Institute gathering takes place 15-Sept-2026 in NYC.

A recent market analysis projects rapid growth in swarm-intelligence technologies over the coming decade, driven by decentralized coordination requirements across IoT, autonomous systems, and distributed decision-making applications.