# Zombie Memories Are Corrupting AI Agents' Reasoning - Date: 2026-03-20 - Category: Agentics When Your AI Agent Remembers Things That Aren't True There's a problem emerging in persistent AI agents that hasn't gotten a name until now: "zombie memories." That's the term researchers at arXiv use in a paper published March 18 to describe a concrete failure mode in large language model agents. ---