AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
Anthropic 📰 MIT Technology Review 📅 Oct 19, 2026 ⏱ 1 min read 👁 8 views

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

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What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…
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