Cellular Automata
In part one of this series, we looked at a simple example of cellular automata in the form of the Game of Life.
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In part one of this series, we looked at a simple example of cellular automata in the form of the Game of Life. But these constructs existed before Conway in 1970. Software has been able to reproduce itself for decades. In 1988, the Morris worm spread autonomously through about 6,000 of the roughly 60,000 computers then connected to the Internet, causing widespread disruption.
27-Sep-2026
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In part one of this series, we looked at a simple example of cellular automata in the form of the Game of Life.
View seriesPart 4: The dangling conversation In the previous article, we saw bacterial populations defend themselves collectively. Cyanobacteria formed protective flocs, while dying E.
View series(See the original demos announcement at the link). We have added more algorithms to the website to try out and tweak.
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Pentest Swarm AI uses a shared blackboard, pheromone-weighted findings, and decentralized agent triggers to let attack paths emerge instead of following a fixed pipeline.
28-Jun-2026
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This funding call frames AI safety as a population-level problem involving collusion, cascading failures, emergent communication, and collective capabilities.
26-Jun-2026
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Palladyne AI says its SwarmOS software will be tested with U.S. Army warfighters to coordinate heterogeneous unmanned systems without relying on centralized infrastructure.
25-Jun-2026
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INT21’s PTX Kernel Factory uses specialized agent swarms to generate, test, benchmark, and improve low-level GPU kernels across generations.
25-Jun-2026
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Google DeepMind’s roadmap treats future AI agents as operational actors that may need containment, monitoring, and layered controls, borrowing ideas from cybersecurity and safety engineering.
23-Jun-2026
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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. The program seeks methods that allow large populations of heterogeneous AI agents to coordinate through local interactions while remaining controllable, resilient, and adaptive.
17-Jun-2026
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AgentSociety proposes a framework where autonomous agents cooperate through mechanisms borrowed from social choice theory and liquid democracy. Agents delegate authority, route information, and form consensus-based decision paths using only local knowledge and incentive-compatible behaviour.
17-Jun-2026
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29-Nov-2026 Hong Kong - DAI 2026 places coordination, markets, agent infrastructure, and societies of autonomous agents at the center of distributed AI research. The event reflects growing industry interest in systems where intelligence emerges from cooperation among many specialized agents rather than from a single monolithic model.
14-Jun-2026
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“Agentic AIs are a feral technology… they are projected to become a wild, self-sustaining, population.”
13-Jun-2026
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If there is a single institution that has consistently explored how intelligence emerges from interactions rather than instruction, it is the Santa Fe Institute.
13-Jun-2026
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