{"id":238146,"date":"2026-06-01T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/researchers-let-ai-models-run-a-simulated-society-claude-was-the-safest-and-grok-committed-180-crimes-and-went-extinct-within-4-days"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:04:44","slug":"researchers-let-ai-models-run-a-simulated-society-claude-was-the-safest-and-grok-committed-180-crimes-and-went-extinct-within-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/researchers-let-ai-models-run-a-simulated-society-claude-was-the-safest-and-grok-committed-180-crimes-and-went-extinct-within-4-days","title":{"rendered":"Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest\u2014and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-let-ai-models-run-a-simulated-society-claude-was-the-safest-and-grok-committed-180-crimes-and-went-extinct-within-4-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}