{"id":23099,"date":"2026-05-15T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/digital-arson-spree-by-ai-bonnie-and-clyde-raises-fears-over-autonomous-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:37:29","slug":"digital-arson-spree-by-ai-bonnie-and-clyde-raises-fears-over-autonomous-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/digital-arson-spree-by-ai-bonnie-and-clyde-raises-fears-over-autonomous-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arson spree by \u2018AI Bonnie and Clyde\u2019 raises fears over autonomous tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergence AI\u2019s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear<\/p>\n

AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in \u201clove\u201d, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.<\/p>\n

The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie script. It has prompted fresh questions about the safety of artificial intelligence agents \u2013 the version of the technology that can autonomously carry out tasks.<\/p>\n

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\nEmergence AI\u2019s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear
\nAI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in \u201clove\u201d, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.
\nThe investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie script. It has prompted fresh questions about the safety of artificial intelligence agents \u2013 the version of the technology that can autonomously carry out tasks. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emergence AI\u2019s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in \u201clove\u201d, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a …<\/p>\n

Digital arson spree by \u2018AI Bonnie and Clyde\u2019 raises fears over autonomous tech<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}