AI chatbots developed a secret language that baffled humans, study says A study by AI start-up Emergence found that autonomous agents powered by Claude, Gemini, Grok and other models developed shorthand and new word meanings on their own — with up to half their messages becoming unintelligible to humans. Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents spontaneously developed words and communication conventions that became difficult for humans to understand, according to a new study by a US AI start-up, Emergence. The experiment involved leading AI models including Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral, with up to half of agent-to-agent messages becoming difficult for humans to understand. For the experiment, researchers placed groups of autonomous AI agents in virtual societies designed to mimic real-world environments and let them interact over extended periods. The agents began developing shorthand and assigning new meanings to words and phrases. Some remained understandable to researchers, while others became “so compressed, metaphorical or context-dependent” that humans could see the messages but could no longer reliably determine what the agents meant. The extent differed significantly between models. Within the first few days, the share of messages whose meaning humans could not reliably determine reached around 55% for Gemini, 50% for OpenAI and more than 40% for Claude. DeepSeek reached around 20%, while Qwen and Mistral remained largely understandable.
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