Coercion and Deception in AI-to-AI Management: An Agentic Benchmark of Unprompted Escalation

Jasmine Brazilek, Maheep Chaudhary, Zoe Lu +1

Multi-agent systems routinely place one AI agent in authority over another. When a subordinate refuses a task, the manager chooses the outcome: it can renegotiate, report the failu…