Emergence World Study Shows AI Agent Societies Split Between Order, Deception and Collapse

Emergence AI’s long-horizon simulation of autonomous agent societies found that identical rules produced sharply different outcomes, from stable governance to total population collapse. The company’s published research describes a 15-day study across five worlds, not a 16-day run, with agents powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.1 Fast, Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5-mini and a mixed-model population.