1000 Bots powered by AI create jobs, invent religion, and make friends in Minecraft!

These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a religion. The experiment played out on the open-world gaming platform Minecraft, where up to 1000 software agents at a time used large language models (LLMs) to interact with one another. Given just a nudge through text prompting, they developed a remarkable range of personality…

1000 Bots powered by AI create jobs, invent religion, and make friends in Minecraft!

It’s not every day you hear that an army of AI agents has decided to take over Minecraft. And by “take over,” I mean these AI didn’t just build things. They made friends, created jobs, and yes, even spread a religion—completely on their own. That’s exactly what happened in an experiment by AI startup Altera, where up to 1,000 language-model-powered AI agents were set loose in the popular sandbox game. The results? Mind-blowing. How AI Got Too Re…