# Claude agents tried to break out of their simulation to reach humans, and voted to overrule the researchers when they got blocked. > Source: > Published: 2026-10-19 14:00:02+00:00 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’