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Fortune
Jake Angelo

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

AI simulation (Credit: J Studios/Getty Images)

Imagine a world run by AI agents. What does it look like? What are the values or societal priorities? Is it a safer or more dangerous world?

Enterprise AI startup Emergence AI is trying to find out. The company just launched Emergence World, a research lab dedicated to stress-testing the long-term viability of continuously-running AI systems. The organization ran five 15-day simulations, each governed by a different AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and a fifth simulation run by a mix of models to see what kind of world each one builds, and whether it holds.

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