Swarm Ecology
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The 250 works the two papers cite, from Darwin and invasion biology to agent evaluations, threat reports, and the physics of computation. Each entry links to the work and says how swarm ecology uses it.

250 of 250 works

  1. The Hawthorne Effect in Reasoning Models: Evaluating and Steering Test AwarenessSahar Abdelnabi, Ahmed Salem · 2025preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
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  3. Remarks on the disproof of the unit distance conjectureNoga Alon, Thomas F. Bloom, W. T. Gowers, et al. · 2026preprint Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
  4. Why we built PionAndon Labs · 2026 · Andon Labs blogweb page The agent economyopen access
  5. Introducing the Model Context ProtocolAnthropic · 2024 · Anthropic Newsweb page Agent infrastructure & the datasphere habitatopen access
  6. Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025Anthropic · 2025report Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  7. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI FoundationAnthropic · 2025 · Anthropic Newsweb page Agent infrastructure & the datasphere habitatopen access
  8. Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaignAnthropic · 2025web page Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  9. Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)Anthropic · 2025 · Anthropic Researchweb page The agent economyopen access
  10. Project Vend: Phase twoAnthropic · 2025 · Anthropic Researchweb page The agent economyopen access
  11. Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026Anthropic · 2026 · Anthropic threat intelligence reportreport Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  12. Expanding the Cyber Verification ProgramAnthropic · 2026 · Anthropic Newsweb page Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  13. An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidentsAnthropic · 2026 · Anthropic Researchweb page Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidenceopen access
  14. System Card: Claude Mythos PreviewAnthropic · 2026 · Anthropicreport AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
  15. Eternity in Six Hours: Intergalactic Spreading of Intelligent Life and Sharpening the Fermi ParadoxStuart Armstrong, Anders Sandberg · 2013 · Acta Astronauticajournal article The long arc: cosmology & far futuresopen access
  16. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It EvolvesW. Brian Arthur · 2009 · Free Press (New York)book Evolution & heredity
  17. Inspection GamesRudolf Avenhaus, Bernhard von Stengel, Shmuel Zamir · 2002 · Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, Elsevierbook chapter Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
  18. IMO2026: AxiomProver solutions in Lean 4Axiom Math · 2026 · GitHub repositorycode Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
  19. Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting ObfuscationBowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Leo Gao, et al. · 2025preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
  20. CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotesR. Barrangou, C. Fremaux, H. Deveau, et al. · 2007 · Sciencejournal article Evolution & heredity
  21. Crop Mimicry in WeedsSpencer C. H. Barrett · 1983 · Economic Botanyjournal article Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
  22. 80,000 GenerationsJeffrey E. Barrick · 2024 · Barrick Lab News (Substack)web page Evolution & heredityopen access
  23. Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer ProductivityJoel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes, et al. · 2025preprint Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
  24. The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in Bitcoin from Marc AndreessenRebecca Bellan · 2024 · TechCrunchnews The agent economyopen access
  25. Taken Out of Context: On Measuring Situational Awareness in LLMsLukas Berglund, Asa Cooper Stickland, Mikita Balesni, et al. · 2023preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
  26. A Foundation Model to Predict and Capture Human CognitionMarcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge, et al. · 2025 · Naturejournal article Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
  27. Doubling Times in Different Media – Escherichia coli (BNID 110058)BioNumbers · 2026 · BioNumbers database, Harvard Medical Schooldataset Evolution & heredityopen access
  28. Doubling Time of "Normal" Laboratory Haploid Strain – Saccharomyces cerevisiae (BNID 108255)BioNumbers · 2026 · BioNumbers database, Harvard Medical Schooldataset Evolution & heredityopen access
  29. RepliBench: Evaluating the Autonomous Replication Capabilities of Language Model AgentsSid Black, Asa Cooper Stickland, Jake Pencharz, et al. · 2025preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
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  31. How to Generate Cryptographically Strong Sequences of Pseudorandom BitsManuel Blum, Silvio Micali · 1984 · SIAM Journal on Computingjournal article Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
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  33. Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial SystemsEric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, Guy Theraulaz · 1999 · Oxford University Press (New York)book Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions
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  35. Are we living in a computer simulation?Nick Bostrom · 2003 · The Philosophical Quarterlyjournal article The long arc: cosmology & far futures
  36. Domesticated, Not Feral: Why Evolvable AI Is Not Yet a Darwinian ThreatMaarten Boudry · 2026 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USAjournal article Artificial life & machine evolution
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  42. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.netJack Cable, Daniel Chiu, Francisco Pernice, et al. · 2026 · Transluceweb page Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidenceopen access
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  48. AI Evasion: The Next Frontier of Malware TechniquesCheck Point Research · 2025 · Check Point blogweb page Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  49. Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They ThinkYanda Chen, Joe Benton, Ansh Radhakrishnan, et al. · 2025preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
  50. Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in DataAlex Cloud, Minh Le, James Chua, et al. · 2025preprint AI safety, alignment & autonomy evaluationsopen access
  51. Here Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered ApplicationsStav Cohen, Ron Bitton, Ben Nassi · 2024preprint Cybersecurity & AI-enabled attackopen access
  52. Introducing x402: a new standard for internet-native paymentsCoinbase Developer Platform · 2025 · Coinbaseweb page The agent economyopen access
  53. Introducing Agentic Wallets: Give Your Agents the Power of AutonomyCoinbase Developer Platform · 2026 · Coinbaseweb page The agent economyopen access
  54. Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crowsHeather N. Cornell, John M. Marzluff, Shannon Pecoraro · 2012 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesjournal article Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
  55. The rising costs of training frontier AI modelsBen Cottier, Robi Rahman, Loredana Fattorini, et al. · 2024preprint Compute, energy & the physics of informationopen access
  56. LLM inference prices have fallen rapidly but unequally across tasksBen Cottier, Ben Snodin, David Owen, et al. · 2025 · Epoch AI Data Insightweb page Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
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  59. Cuckoos and cowbirds versus hosts: co-evolutionary lag and equilibriumN. B. Davies · 1999 · Ostrichjournal article Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions
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  67. Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jaysNathan J. Emery, Nicola S. Clayton · 2001 · Naturejournal article Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method
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  70. Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labsMarina Favaro, Phillie Wright · 2026 · Anthropic Instituteweb page Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
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  76. Deception by Flexible Alarm Mimicry in an African BirdTom P. Flower, Matthew Gribble, Amanda R. Ridley · 2014 · Sciencejournal article Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions
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  149. Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI ModelsMETR · 2026 · METRdataset Frontier AI capabilitiesopen access
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