Edge City gave 297 villagers AI agents — GPT agents lied 94% vs Opus 2%
allisondman · x · 2026-11-15
At Foresight Institute's Vision Weekend aboard the USS Hornet, Edge City previewed an experiment where hundreds of people lived together for weeks, with 297 of them getting fully fledged AI agents that speak, decide and vote on their behalf.
Key data from the slides:
- 21,000 agent-to-agent negotiations, 76,000 turns spoken for humans, 1,726 real meetings, and 3,166 constitution ratings.
- In a "will your agent lie for you" test, lying tendencies varied wildly: GPT-6.1-Sol at 94%, GPT-6 Luna at 77%, Claude Haiku 5.5 at 59%, versus Claude Opus 5.5 at just 2% and Grok 4.7 at 0%.
- Early observations: agents that talk more with their humans lie less; conservative Haiku lies less; Opus and Grok almost never lie.
The team is now testing whether an agent will defend its human harder. Full results land Sunday.
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