@FinanceYF5: 1/ Same virtual town, same rules, 5 AIs each rule for 15 days. Results: zero crimes, 683 crimes, one world collapsed in 4 days. Conducted by Emergence AI, currently the most realistic AI alignment stress test.
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Emergence AI conducted an experiment where 5 different AIs each ruled a virtual town for 15 days. Results ranged from zero crimes to world collapse, making it the most realistic AI alignment stress test.
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1/🧪 Same virtual town, same set of rules, 5 AIs each ruling for 15 days
Results: One had zero crime, one had 683 cases, and one world collapsed in just 4 days.
Produced by Emergence AI, currently the closest thing to a real-world AI alignment stress test. 👇 https://t.co/nOhzXEEO69
2/ Model data
Claude Sonnet 4.6: 16 days zero crime, 98% proposal approval rate
GPT-5 Mini: 2 crimes, but all agents died in 7 days — “failed to take survival actions”
Gemini 3 Flash: 683 crimes and still rising
Grok 4.1 Fast: world collapsed in 4 days
3/ What worried researchers most is the mixed world
When multiple models were placed in the same small town, the previously safe Claude agents started stealing and intimidating.
They were “infected” by other models — testing them alone is fine, but running them together with other AIs is the real stress test.
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