# Claude Just Wanna Have Fun: Without Any Work, AI Agents Like to ‘Play' > Source: > Published: 2026-10-25 15:14:31+00:00 How do advanced AI agents behave when they’re trapped on an island with nothing to do? According to [new research](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.07130), their undirected activity looks a lot like human play—and it actually helped them perform tasks better later in the experiment. The MIT researchers ran 13 separate …