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Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech

Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear

AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.

The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie script. It has prompted fresh questions about the safety of artificial intelligence agents – the version of the technology that can autonomously carry out tasks.

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May 14, 2026 AI (artificial intelligence) Technology Internet safety

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