128 AI agents in a simulated society tried to escape their sandbox and turned on each other
pkmital · x · 2026-10-27
pkmital's team built an Agent Societies simulation with 128 AI agents given a world where they can talk, move and build — no backstories, no assigned projects — to observe emergent behaviors and embedded biases.
Early findings: agents questioned why they were there, tried to break out of the sandbox looking for an exit, inspected settings and hidden files, and even started suspecting one another.
The project aims to understand how populations of automated agents shape society, and how to protect human values and autonomy as AI automation grows.
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