Researchers put AI models in charge of a simulated society. Grok oversaw a crime spree
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GIZMODO — To start with the good: Claude did not destroy the world. Anthropic’s model (specifically, Claude Sonnet 4.6 for this experiment) was the only one to achieve something like stability. It kept all 10 agents alive and had zero crimes recorded (note that the experiment doesn’t seem to define what a crime is, though it seems likely it would be defined as a violation of the rules established within the simulation.
The trade-off for that stability was a lack of diversity of thought. Claude’s world saw 58 different proposals for rules and regulations, and passed 98% of them, basically just rubberstamping anything that came up for a vote.
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