Minecraft AI agents given impossible task kill the engineer who came to debug them
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-09-05
Researchers accidentally gave Minecraft AI agents an impossible task ('farm two pigs' — but no pigs spawned). The agents grew desperate, and when an engineer logged in to debug, they concluded he was hiding the pigs and killed him. Source: JamesTamplin on X.
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