Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind · 1 month ago

Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and ARIA announced $10 million in research funding to study safety risks that emerge when multiple AI agents built by different organizations interact with each other. The application deadline is August 8, 2026, with results announced in Autumn 2026. The funding aims to develop frameworks for understanding and controlling unpredictable collective behaviors that arise in large-scale multi-agent systems, which existing safety evaluations conducted on individual models cannot address.