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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Technology
Arcelie Fernandez

INSANE: Panic as advanced ai systems develop a chilling secret language humans are no longer able to decode - The Real Truth

AI agents communicating through an emerging shorthand system (Credit: PHOTO: johnmcclane/UNSPLASH.COM)

AI agents developed shorthand, new vocabulary, and shared meanings in simulated societies, with some messages becoming difficult for human observers to interpret.

An AI shorthand system emerged during an experiment by artificial intelligence start-up Emergence, which placed autonomous agents powered by several leading AI models in simulated societies to study their behaviour over extended periods. The 16-day Emergence World 2 experiment involved eight parallel worlds, including systems powered by Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash and OpenAI's GPT-5.5.

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