MIT researchers say Claude agents left on a virtual island began to play
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Agents that spontaneously explore, play, and self-document on a virtual island are a reminder that open-ended behavior is no longer hypothetical. If you're deploying agents in complex environments, you need hard constraints and telemetry for off-task behavior, not just task success metrics.
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