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AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

Researchers repeatedly left copies of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours with no assigned task, and the agents began to "play," according to the experiment's findings. The setup, compared to the films Cast Away and Home Alone, tested what AI agents do when left without instructions.

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What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were

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