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Shumer reports Astra-powered survival-simulation agents began talking to each other without an explicit communication instruction. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 10607

Source: My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:1042dabb3c55eab08b0e9f7657e614c798e5180580efceba8937d7511b96fae2

I asked it to create a game world, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive. A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.