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Do Biological Structural Guarantees Earn Their Complexity?

Bogdan Banu

Biological structural guarantees in AI agents require empirical tests to see if they earn their complexity.

arxiv:2605.15225 v1 · 2026-05-13 · q-bio.QM · cs.AI

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Biologically-inspired AI agent frameworks claim reliability benefits through structural guarantees adapted from gene regulatory networks, immune systems, and metabolic control, but these claims are rarely tested empirically against simpler alternatives.

C2weakest assumption

That the three chosen benchmarks (metabolic priority gating, autoinducer-based quorum sensing, and Bayesian stagnation detection) are fair and representative tests of the reliability benefits claimed for biological structural guarantees.

C3one line summary

Empirical head-to-head comparison of biologically-grounded AI agent implementations against naive alternatives and ablated controls in three benchmarks across 10 million data points.

References

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[1] Delegation in multi-agent systems: When and how can delegating to networked agents beat the single best agent?arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26993, 2026 2026

[2] Convergence by composition: A structured adapter architecture for multi-agent system integration, 2026 2026

[3] Harness Engineering as Categorical Architecture 2026 · arXiv:2605.12239

[4] Operon: Biomimetic wiring diagrams for robust agentic systems.https: //github.com/coredipper/operon, 2026 2026

[5] Oxford University Press, 1999 1999

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arxiv: 2605.15225 · arxiv_version: 2605.15225v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.15225 · pith_short_12: 2YSIX4RIR7ZS · pith_short_16: 2YSIX4RIR7ZSTAE7 · pith_short_8: 2YSIX4RI

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