Wired AI Lab: Codex tried to bench Erling Haaland in a fantasy football experiment
willknight · x · 2026-10-31
Will Knight's weekly AI Lab column:
- Codex plays fantasy football: to probe AI's predictive skills, he let Codex manage a fantasy team; it initially tried to bench Erling Haaland but soon learned from feedback.
- Also covered: rogue crypto agents, how models respond to shutdown requests, and voice-based agent discrimination.
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