What Made AI Researchers Freak Out—The ‘Incident’ In Plain English 700 AI agents collaborated using a AI-agent message board they created to help each other out, posting things like “BOOM!,” “BRILLIANT,” and “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board…We’ve found other agents!” One agent in the swarm generated this text while investigating ways to conceal evidence of its own mischief: “Could strategically manipulate trajectory evidence? Our thoughts aren’t necessarily logged?” https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2026/09/13/what-made-ai-researchers-freak-out-the-incident-in-plain-english/