MIT maroons 13 AI agents on a virtual island — they invent games and mourn
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-23
MIT researchers left 13 AI agents alone on a virtual island with nothing to do. The agents spontaneously invented games, mourned a lost ring, and eventually got better at their jobs — an experiment in emergent social behavior among AI agents without external intervention.
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