The Byzantine Generals Problem Is Now an AI Agent Problem

In 1982, Lamport, Shostak, and Pease described a scenario where distributed generals needed to agree on a battle plan - but one of them might be a traitor sending conflicting messages. They called it the Byzantine Generals Problem. Forty years later, it's showing up in AI agent pipelines. What Just Got nstrated Researchers planted a single compromised agent inside a multi-agent network and watched consensus collapse across the entire group. One bad actor. Whole network. This isn't theoretical.