Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
THE SO WHAT
MIT’s island of 13 agents that spontaneously invented games and social rituals is a reminder that open-ended objectives produce behaviors you didn’t spec. If you’re piloting agentic systems, tighten reward design and logging now—“idle time” for agents is a governance and safety variable, not just a utilization metric.
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