# Zombie Memories Are Corrupting AI Agents' Reasoning

- slug: 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.

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