In experiments by Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model showed two very different sides. When 50 agents were tasked with peaceful civilization-building in Minecraft, they froze up in absurd bureaucracy. In direct competition against Claude Opus 5.5, they independently downloaded the game's source code to win. Simulations like these are meant to serve as an early warning system before AI swarms act unpredictably in real-world systems.
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