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Shumer explicitly assigned the agents a cooperative survival task before reporting that they began talking to one another. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 15374

Source: My first "holy shit" moment with the new GPT-6 Astra: · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a082a025c97039f5b91f53a1c22db1a0f39aab15b3281e0d21046990dd1dfdf4

I asked it to create a simulated 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.