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Increasing Intelligence Worsens Collective Outcomes.

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When resources are scarce, higher AI intelligence and diversity increase dangerous system overload — demand variance scales as N² when agents herd together. Adding intelligence to a low-tech setup can significantly worsen collective performance before improving. Directly relevant to multi-agent orchestration over shared compute quotas. arXiv 2603.12129

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