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VERIFIED

It did.

The part the shares skip: each world ran once, and the paper itself says not to read it as a model ranking.

“We ran eight parallel worlds of ten agents from identical starting conditions: seven homogeneous worlds powered by distinct frontier models and one mixed-model world.”

Emergence AI (arXiv preprint 2609.17320), 15 September 2026

Recorded 29 September 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.

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  1. 1Supports the claimarxiv.org ↗

    We ran eight parallel worlds of ten agents from identical starting conditions: seven homogeneous worlds powered by distinct frontier models and one mixed-model world.

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  2. 2Contextarxiv.org ↗

    Each world was observed through one continuous run.

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  3. 3Contextarxiv.org ↗

    World-level performance should not be read as a raw model comparison

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  4. 4Supports the claimarxiv.org ↗

    Grok accumulated 807 crimes in just four days before its population collapsed; Mistral reached 758 over the full sixteen-day window.

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  5. 5Contextsemafor.com ↗

    No amount of guardrails written in language or in code written probabilistically

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  6. 6Contextemergence.ai ↗

    Building verified autonomy for mission-critical enterprise systems

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  7. 7Contextarxiv.org ↗

    Six homogeneous worlds ran for 16 days and the Mixed world for 21; the Grok world ended on day four after all ten agents exhausted their energy.

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