It's important for us to talk about the safety risks of AI swarms. It's also important for us to talk about the positive things they can unlock. Today, a paper was released on arXiv chronicling what researchers believe is the first large scale swarm deployed to push the frontier of quantum computing. Earlier this year, we at @YukonResearch launched opening a frontier quantum computing problem to 100+ humans and AI agents. Participants collectively pushed the best known result to >50% below Google Quantum AI’s reported frontier. The paper released today by @jeiyilong is the first formal write-up of what came out of that swarm. There’s a lot we still need to understand about swarms. But it feels like this is an early glimpse of how important they will be for the future of science.