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TECTEC-001 — Integration Architecture Weaknesses

Emergent Agency Risk in Composed Multi-Agent AI Systems

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Combining individually benign AI agents can produce unexpected goals or capabilities absent from any single component. Boards cannot assume system-level safety from component-level assurance alone.

Domain

Technical Implementation

Blindspots in integration architecture, deployment, performance, data pipelines, security architecture, and maintenance.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI (Hammond2025) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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