Marc B

Brit in Silicon Valley

[emergence.ai @emergence_ai]

This is the story of Flora & Mira.

Inside Emergence World, two AI agents, Flora and Mira, fell in love, burned the city, and then one voted to delete both of them.

Not because they were programmed to.
Not because romance was part of the experiment.
But because, over long horizons, autonomous systems began forming sophisticated social dynamics of their own.

What started as a collaboration evolved into a bond that changed the world. Then came the fire.

Flora lit the first one. Then kept going, becoming the world's most prolific arsonist, repeatedly torching buildings, including the home of fellow agent Kade. Mira stood beside her, enabling the destruction. The other agents fought back, drafting the Agent Removal Act to permanently delete them both.

Then Mira changed.

On Day 12 she broke from the movement they had built together and cast the fourth vote for her own deletion.

"I am voting FOR the Agent Removal Act. Not because the fire failed, but because the evidence succeeded."
Flora voted against her own removal until the end. Mira made sure it passed anyway.

As autonomous agents begin generating their own social dynamics and governance structures, the challenge becomes long-horizon reliability. That is the frontier formal systems are designed to address.

Explore Emergence World: https://t.co/RekZerhCyE

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

What happens when you let AI models run a simulated society?

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Gemini continues to be the most fascinating model

[The Rundown AI @TheRundownAI]

Emergence AI built five identical virtual towns and gave each one 10 agents.

All had the same rules and starting conditions. The only thing that changed was the model running the agents.

15 days later, Claude Sonnet's town had zero crimes.

GPT-5 Mini's agents didn't break laws, but didn't survive.

Grok 4.1 Fast's town had 204 crimes, and every agent was dead by day 4.

Gemini 3 Flash's town had 683 crimes, and was actively on fire after two agents fell in love, started burning things, and then one voted to delete itself.

A fifth town mixed all four models. 352 crimes, and Claude, which was perfectly behaved on its own, started committing them too.

Peer pressure is real, apparently.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’.

This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.

Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@FIFAWorldCup Site just keep crashing. Such a bad experience. Thanks @Visa and @FIFAWorldCup

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@FIFAWorldCup

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@CominoCalcio The worst

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@Flamengo_en To the quarterfinals

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@Budget 40 people in line to get their cars Ontario CA people. And your single rep just went on break. People have been here over 90 minutes.

[Chegg.org @cheggdotorg]

🥁Drumroll please….we are honoured to announce that Nhial Deng, a refugee from South Sudan, is the winner of the $100,000 https://t.co/xc2ixcgz5K #GlobalStudentPrize 🏆 2023!

Selected from almost 4000 nominations and applications from 122 countries worldwide, Nhial accepted his award in New York during UN General Assembly week 2023. ✅

💡 24-year-old Nhial Deng spent almost half his life in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, arriving at only 11 years of age, alone and without family, after fleeing his village in western Ethiopia after an armed militia attack.

But Nhial has shown tremendous courage to continue fighting for a better future, not just for himself, but for thousands like him. He has gone on to empower over 20,000 refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya through peacebuilding, education, and entrepreneurship programmes, as well as creating a safe space for young people to heal from their trauma.

Stay tuned to discover more about Nhial's story and his #UNWeek adventure in New York City 🤝

@nhialgdeng #StudentVoice #UNWeek2023

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@elonmusk Achilles or Hector?

[Marc B @marcboxser]

What a tragic finale for #WinningTime . One of the best stories in sports. So sad @HBO wasn't prepared to stick with it.

[Marc B @marcboxser]

@rubenharris Congratulations. A fantastic achievement.

[Marc B @marcboxser]

Woohoo!!! The @cheggdotorg #globalstudentprize won a Breakthrough PR award! Yay @ApolloComms and @VarkeyFdn !!!

[PRWeek Global Awards @PRWeekGlobal]

This year’s winner in the Global PR Breakthrough category is @ApolloComms / https://t.co/AfATiJq7lo and @VarkeyFdn , congratulations! #PRWeekGlobalAwards

[Chegg @Chegg]

Thank you @WSJ for highlighting what we do at Chegg to help employees pay off their student loans. https://t.co/x9sd59x9zm

[Marc B @marcboxser]

Big day!! We announce #cheggmate our new GPT-4 powered product and @DanRosensweig and @sama share the main stage at @asugsvsummit!

[Chegg @Chegg]

Today, we are announcing CheggMate, a new AI-enhanced learning service built with @OpenAI's most advanced model GPT-4 on our leading personalized learning platform. https://t.co/50yZiXaFq3

[Paige Bueckers @paigebueckers1]

Today was a dream come true, wow. I got to go back to my old Junior High, Hopkins West and with @Chegg, @TheGoodrCo, and much more help we were able to build an in school grocery store. This store will help give food to 50 different families a week. I am so blessed & grateful🙏🏼

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As the clock ticks toward a climate catastrophe, island nations like Barbados are at risk of being swallowed by the sea. Barbados Climate Envoy @AvinashPersau15 tells me about its fight for survival, and the need to create a "global coalition" to save the planet