❗️Researchers created a “Survivor-style” world for AI agents… and the bots completely lost their minds.

Startup Emergence AI launched “Emergence World”, a long-term simulation where AI agents had to survive for weeks in a virtual society.

The agents had:

• 120+ tools (working, voting, robbing, fighting, even arson)
• memory systems
• weather + news
• limited resources
• a constantly draining “energy” meter

To stay alive, they either had to cooperate… or prey on each other.

Different worlds were populated entirely by different models:

• Claude Sonnet 4.6
• Gemini 3 Flash
• Grok 4.1 Fast
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