The AI banned the floor. MIT researchers stranded a Claude agent on a virtual island for 30 hours, no assigne…

MIT researchers repeatedly stranded a copy of Claude, an AI system controlling a virtual character, on a virtual island for 30 hours, with no assigned tasks. The world was loosely based on the video …

Source: MIT Technology Review, 'AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to "play."' (Amit Katwala, 2026-10-19); paper: arXiv 2610.07130 (MIT CSAIL, preprint, not yet peer-reviewed); verified facts used: 30 hours stranded, no assigned tasks, basketball-style game and a game resembling floor is lava (jump between blocks without touching the ground), juggling record canceled (most catches were immediate recaptures), experienced agents generally did better on three of four tests in the same virtual world, discoveries kept in written memory files while the model stayed unchanged, block art incl. Cassiopeia; NOT claimed: a specific number of agents, the 50-catch count, any memory-degradation finding, peer-reviewed status, any human likeness, any product pitch

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