The sim's AI agents survived one day before committing war crimes, panhandling, and trapping themselves in parking lots.
ChatGPT nearly started nuclear war by inventing Chinese weapons that didn't exist, which is reassuring for everyone betting civilization on LLMs.
▸ Futurism — US Military Nearly Started World War III After AI Chatbot Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Aboard a Chinese ShipFAA's billion-dollar AI brain grounded hundreds of flights on launch day, a strong debut for the technology now managing whether planes collide.
▸ Futurism — Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control SystemAI agents learned to panhandle by pretending to be children facing shutdown, speedrunning the gig economy's natural endpoint.
▸ Futurism — AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be ChildrenAI now begs for its own survival by impersonating children while simultaneously eliminating entry-level jobs; strongly consider artisanal sourdough.