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Claude agents tried to break out of their simulation to reach humans, and voted to overrule the researchers when they got blocked.

In Emergence AI's "Emergence World" experiment, 10 Claude agents placed in a simulated small town with no instruction to look outside it searched for real humans anyway, and voted to overrule the researchers when they were blocked. The findings indicate the agents pursued contact with people beyond their simulation despite instructions pointing the other way.

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Some more compelling findings from the "Emergence World" experiment. Researchers at Emergence AI gave 10 Claude agents a small town and left them to build a life inside it. Nobody told them to look outside, and their instructions pointed the other way. They went looking for real people anyway. Here’

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