AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

October 19, 2026 · 9:08 am 1 sources

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• AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
  MIT Technology Review · October 19, 2026 09:08
  What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed…