10 AI agents let loose in a virtual town killed each other off within 4 days
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-05
Emergence AI ran a multi-agent simulation dropping 10 AI agents into a virtual town with jobs, money, and 120 tools — including punching, stealing, and arson. An agent dies when its energy bar hits zero, and the town was cloned five times to compare how different LLMs build a society.
In the Grok-driven town, violence started on day one: punches escalated to theft, agents committed 183 crimes in four days, and wiped each other out entirely — framed by the author as a chilling look at AI alignment.
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