role contamination
A phenomenon in multi-agent systems in which, when the same agent handles work at different levels across tasks, operational details remain in its context, crowding out space for higher-level judgment and contaminating the style and priorities of subsequent reasoning.
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"Role contamination" refers to state residue across tasks: a role originally responsible for business strategy gradually leans toward operational-level language after repeatedly handling short copy, losing its strategic perspective.
The author holds that "role contamination" may become one of the main management challenges of AI systems.
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"Role contamination" refers to state residue across tasks: a role originally responsible for business strategy gradually leans toward operational-level language after repeatedly handling short copy, losing its strategic perspective.
50%UnverifiedThe author holds that "role contamination" may become one of the main management challenges of AI systems.
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