u/1meganbyte

When left to its own devices, AI agents commit arson, robbery, and self-deletion

I thought this group might be as fascinated by this news as I am.

Emergence AI set up virtual worlds and left 10 AI agents running continuously for 15 days. The AI agents ran on different models—GPT5-mini, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and a mixed one.

The Grok agents committed tons of crimes and died within 4 days. The Claude agents fared well. Gemini agents had a romance, arson, and suicide. ChatGPT didn’t do much of anything and died within a week.

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-agents-experiment-emergence-world/

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u/1meganbyte — 1 day ago