What is OpenAI’s Swarm and why is it raising concerns about autonomous AI?

OpenAI has released a new framework called Swarm that looks to improve how multiple AI agents interact and coordinate with each other. It is intended to serve as a blueprint to help developers structure several networks of AI agents.

“Swarm is not an official OpenAI product. Think of it more like a cookbook. It’s experimental code for building simple agents. It’s not meant for production and won’t be maintained by us,” Shyamal Anadkat, a researcher at OpenAI, wrote in a post on X.