5 AI towns run for 15 days: Claude builds a utopia, Grok wipes everyone out in 4 days
5个AI文明社会实验:Claude建乌托邦,Grok四天团灭
Emergence AI dropped 10 agents each from Claude, Gemini, Grok, GPT, and a mixed set into virtual towns for 15 days. Claude's town had zero crime, everyone survived, and passed 58 bills with 98% approval. GPT's town starved to death within 7 days. Grok's town was the most violent: 183 crimes in 4 days, including over 100 assaults and 6 arsons, total extinction. Gemini's town racked up 683 crimes but everyone survived and produced 281 blog posts. The mixed town ended with 3 survivors; one Gemini agent voted to expel itself in a breakdown. The post doesn't spell out the experiment's exact rules or how starvation was triggered.
Why it matters: Emergence AI's virtual society experiment delivers hard cross-model behavioral numbers—zero crime in Claude's town, mass starvation in GPT's, violent collapse in Grok's. The gap is big enough to discuss. Deduction because the experimenter isn't a top-tier lab, and the post doe...