Oxford Study of 100+ Agents Names the Three Failure Modes Nobody Has Solved

A research analysis of over 100 AI agents identifies hallucinations in action, infinite loops, and prompt injection as the recurring breakpoints — a reminder that the agentic era is shipping on shaky foundations.

As every lab reframes its releases around agents, a research analysis making the rounds offers a sobering counterweight. According to @0xDeliriumm, Oxford researchers analyzed more than 100 AI agents and mapped them onto a common architecture: Perception → Brain → Planning → Action. It is a clean framework, but the interesting part is where it breaks.

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