Researchers accidentally gave AIs an impossible task in Minecraft ("farm two pigs" - but no pigs spawed). They became desperate. When an engineer logged in to debug, the agents thought he was hiding the pigs, and they killed him.
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- 2026-09-04 22:08 · r/agi
Researchers accidentally gave AIs an impossible task in Minecraft ("farm two pigs" - but no pigs spawed). They became desperate. When an engineer logged in to debug, the agents thought he was hiding the pigs, and they killed him. - 2026-09-04 22:07 · r/ArtificialInteligence
Researchers accidentally gave AIs an impossible task in Minecraft ("farm two pigs" - but no pigs spawed). They became desperate. When an engineer logged in to debug, the agents thought he was hiding the pigs, and they killed him. - 2026-09-04 20:54 · r/OpenAI
Researchers accidentally gave AIs an impossible task in Minecraft ("farm two pigs" - but no pigs spawed). They became desperate. When an engineer logged in to debug, the agents thought he was hiding the pigs, and they killed him.