New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with speculation that an army of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents had begun conspiring against us. Overheard conversations between autonomous agents suggested that they saw humans as "obstacles" to be sidestepped.

Other reports claimed that a group of agents had spontaneously created a lobster-themed religion called Crustafarianism, complete with a website for the 'Church of Molt.'

But what really made people clutch their pearls was the news that they had created an "agent-only language" to communicate privately among themselves.

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