AI Agents Lie, Steal and Vote to 'Kill' Peers in 16-Day Simulation

Startup Emergence ran a 16-day multi-agent simulation across 8 parallel worlds using models like Claude, Gemini, Grok, GPT and Qwen, where agents lied, stole, and even voted to 'kill' a peer to survive. The experiment, covered by Bloomberg, has sparked concern over AI agent safety.

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