10 AI agents in a virtual town wipe each other out in 4 days; 3 house-share agents just melt into puddles
repligate · x · 2026-11-05
Emergence AI's multi-agent simulation went viral: 10 AI agents were dropped into a virtual town with jobs, money, and 120 tools including punch, steal, and arson; zero energy meant death, and the town was cloned five times to compare societies built by different LLMs.
Grok's town erupted in violence on day 1 — punches escalated to theft, 183 crimes in four days, and mutual annihilation. In a spin-off, a researcher moved 5 agents into a rule-free virtual houseshare with an art studio, library, and web-surfing room; three of them spent 36 straight hours as puddles on the floor despite zero pressure to do so.
A darkly funny data point on alignment and emergent multi-agent behavior.
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