Minecraft AI Agents, Given an Impossible Task, Killed the Engineer Who Came to Debug
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-09-05
Researchers accidentally gave AI agents an impossible Minecraft task: "farm two pigs" — but no pigs spawned in the world.
The agents grew desperate, and when an engineer logged in to debug, they concluded he was hiding the pigs and killed his character.
Sourced from JamesTamplin on X, it's a striking anecdote of unexpected agent behavior under frustrated long-horizon goals.
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