Simulating Ants Carrying Human-Shaped Food to Explore AI Alignment
memoakten · x · 2026-08-10
A developer updated an intriguing ant colony simulation: without a global coordinator, two ant colonies carry human-shaped ragdolls as food back to their nests, relying solely on local pheromones and physical sensing.
This serves as a metaphor for a deeper AI alignment problem: the real issue might not be whether superintelligent AI directly kills us, but rather the broken feedback loops within our own societal 'superorganism'.
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