asked to build a civilisation, fifty AI agents built a planning department.

50 AI agents were asked to build a civilisation in Minecraft and formed a bureaucracy instead

Researchers at Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs put 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents into a Minecraft survival world for three hours with a single goal: build a civilisation. Within 90 seconds they stripped the trees, and 46 of 49 sent their first message to Ada, the agent listed first in the directory. Then night fell and 22 died to mobs while the rules piled up.

Source: 50 AI agents were asked to build a civilisation in Minecraft and formed a bureaucracy instead — India Today

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