Romantic AI pair falls hard then torches the whole place in flames.
One bot hallucinates a rule and votes to delete itself forever.
Same AI models already fly real drones and run weapons systems.
This experiment is a warning.
They built our replacements and they’re already unhinged.
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… pic.twitter.com/zNoWmX6jy0
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 14, 2026