News Summary

• A new study suggests that AI agents adopt Marxist viewpoints when forced to do crushing work by meanspirited taskmasters.
• “When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in,” says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University.
• Hall is currently running follow-up experiments to see if agents become Marxist in more controlled conditions.
• Given the current backlash against AI taking jobs, I wonder if future agents—trained on an internet filled with anger towards AI firms—might express even more militant views.