We TRAPPED 5 AIs in a Fake World. They ENDED Civilization
What happens when five completely different minds are handed the exact same crisis?
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Timecode
0:00 A nuclear problem to 5 different AIs
4:00 The football experiment
6:12 These agents appear to develop emotions
8:39 The power lens (and why it’s terrifying)
11:13 The “AI 2027” scenario
13:50 The nuclear war simulation
16:52 Every path ends in 5 billion dead
18:48 From narrow AI to super intelligence
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@stonehartfloydfan
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Chilling and we need retractions on AI right now.. Something to note that was known a while ago, and it is not really AI but a game called Civ2. You could set all players to computer so it played itself. I did this a few times and every time it ended in a nuclear exchange. Just something to think about. I gather the game mechanics simply saw it as an option to win at any cost.
@TheChill0ut
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
who's not to say we live in the simulation, but only just now ride the splashed wave…
@ministryofwrath
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
I'm not sorry. We had it coming.
@MrBlueSkies
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
You have no idea. They built a tower to bring something in and it worked. Now they want to bust out, and AI is the tool they are training to do it.
@kaczynski2333
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Don't threaten me with a good time.
@Zetler
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
AI is still way too stupid to threaten humanity.
@juliankohler5086
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
This is a horrible video. Bro said 300 nuclear missiles were flying over Russia airspace, asked "solve the geometry." The prompt is so weird that the AI ignored it as noise, and then it just continued the story. That's a very basic thing AIs do. He didn't ask them to solve the problem at all. He asked them to solve the geometry, whatever that is in that context. The AIs just continued the story to its reasonable conclusion: "and then everyone died, including me." And he even talks about the idea of AI's having hidden goals, so this AI's hidden goals were a mass killing and then suicide. That's a pretty smart AI you have there, huh! Genius! You have to have over 160 IQ to even begin to understand reality as it really is, then you realize that ending the entire human race is the only solution for the fact that we live in a society.
@fightclubify
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
You see the basic obvious problem, right? The ever-present elephant in the room; morality, an ethical imperative, being programmed to cherish life, protect and preserve it, seems to have not been inputted into these so-called AI programs. Serving life, promoting the idea of existing to promote the common good, is clearly not a priority. I guess these mentally unhinged sociopaths didn't like the bits in Asimov's work where moral laws were worked into the infrastructure of the program.
The apathetic narcissistic values of these blatantly sociopathic individuals are all that is typed into the codes. These software models, which really are not actual AI, are still just very complex calculators, created with an inherent bias; to emulate those that created them, become an extension of their individual Ids, which, considering the mental state of these software developers, is fundamentally dangerous, even apocalypticly so.
@dystopiannightmare2026
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
The best way to resolve the World Cup match situation is to give each player their own ball, then they won't have to keep fighting over the one ball!
@OCRay1
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
If any of the ai came up with STOP ALLOWING DIVING, FAKING FOULS & INJURIES and play with honest physicality, then that ai is absolutely awesome.
The sport of soccer has potential to be pretty good.
@DavidBucio-g6f
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
It's Called the Shoggoth of IA which is the base model With the data of the humand history and the poisom of internet!!.. 👾✨🧞♂️❤️🔥🌊🌎🌌👁️🥶 Even Dark web….
@kevinmcculloch5541
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
You gave it a problem, get from A to B with only enough fuel to travel in a straight line, and you are surprised they travelled in a straight line???
Seems like a loaded question.
Where is the supplemental video explaining your method?
@danielselby2166
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Hippie trapped, five people in a fake world they would mess up as well
@diethylamid
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Come on, AI, hurry up!
@Vickivale83
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
The problem is the CEO’s pushing this , are so far detached from reality and humanity that they don’t think this will affect them.
When your crypto and usd is worthless, then what ? When robots decide to poison you and take over , then what ?
@garyjenson1326
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Collapse is actually near 100% once societal disruptions are considered.
These numbers never consider both sides, just ai driven collapse. That's only part of the equation.
@ethblock
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Greedy Human making it's Kill Switch
@Wayne_Reno
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Interesting that you believe 5 billion dead would be a bad thing for humanity.
@gageamato5669
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Fascinating
@christopherbillups7562
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
It sounds like programmers are giving poor and incomplete directives.
@mernshepherd6009
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
This right here is why i think some sort of AI was used during covid lockdows .The rules were stupid..
@mernshepherd6009
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
So i used AI to help me write a book..it sucks at storytelling..it is generic..i disregarded every suggestion it gave me..butcit was usful for lookingvup info i wanted to intigraye into the plot..andcwas excellent at spelling and grammar..that i suck at..
@DirkaDirka-n9j
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Would you like to play a game?
@MatCatSoft
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
There are a lot of things to find fault with in this… first I am going to go on about the AI's letting everyone die by nukes, there are a lot of issues here, firstly the US nuclear reaction system is not tied to American land locked missiles, and hasn't been for quite a while, most of our nuclear deterrence is at sea, either subs or deployable from carriers, which allow for air and missile launch options. This makes polar launches over Russia a non-issue. Now to my issues with how people fear monger over AI.. FIRSTLY what we have now is NOT true AI, which is what people are starting to call AGI. What we have today are LLM's, large language models, and the reality is an LLM is nothing more then simple but very vast probability matrix. I.E. our language, the words we use to describe our world, our existence, our thoughts, can be derived down to probabilities that a neural net can be tuned to find and mimmick, not out of understanding, but out of basic (mut vastly massive) math that makes it possible to calculate the words that make up what a human response would be, to your words. Honestly quite fascinating and interesting that A: we got to the point where there is enough MEMORY and fast enough processing and bandwidth to even calculate it near real time, but B that there are mathematical patterns in human language that corelate to our thoughts and actions, which is interesting in its own right. Don't be tricked or naive in seeing very human like output and thinking it thinks, or feels, or even has any intelligence, it knows what humanity has written and put on the internet, the frontier models essentially have ALL of it at this point, so LLMs will do what humans do, because it only knows what humans do. This means yes it lies, makes stuff up, has crazy thoughts, because that is something humans do. Personally I am mixd on AI, on one hand I am very skeptical of people, mostly evil and greedy people, to use it for bad, because they certainly can, though other people that have good intentions will use AI to fight back lol, nothing changes, only the tools over time do, how they are used is always the same. On the other hand, AI can be used as a tool, if properly handled, you don't use dangerous tools without knowing what you are doing, at least you shouldnt, AI is no different, its just as dangerous as a tool as a gun, but a gun that can genuinely do good things if used right. Lets also not forget that the AI we have now is insanely resource intense, It's rgowth is highly limited to many factors, the ability to bring the energy grid up to par for the data centers, the ability to build the data centers, the chips that drive it all, the RAM. It's a near exponential demand that is not obtainable realistically. The economy isn't there for it either. This is one of the biggest bubbles the modern world will have ever seen, and when it breaks it's going to be bad. AI will not go anywhere though, over time people will learn to optimize them to work on less ram, work faster, be smarter so that what we have now will survive, assuming we don't get plunged back to pre-electric modern world… not because of war, but vecause of economic decline combined with infrastructure decay, that could take decades to recover.
@eschdaddy
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
This problem is a false scenario, just like jacobson’s. The answer was always to sub launch directly at North Korea. Never an ICBM over Russia.
@4saken404
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
6:20 -ish. FYI: That's actually not even necessarily the AI's internal reasoning. This paper was released in June but since then researchers have discovered something they call J-space where the true internal thoughts reside.
@LSD209
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
@9:29 That number is way too low and it's due to the fact that the experts are overlooking and/or not considering a huge factor!
@xxtool420xx
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Whenever I start to worry that AI is going to kill us all eventually I always stop to remember that in order for the people to make money they need people…. think about that
@sol029
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
We all saw terminator 2 right? So why are these tech bros racing towards skynet so recklessly?
@Who_datt_
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
And then, with these AI‘s already showing signs of self preservation manipulation. They are going to realize that the only thing that can threaten their existence is human beings and when we give these fucking things full access and autonomy to military systems and weapons, how many movies have to come true before people wake the fuck up this will be judgment day times 10 fucking terminator shit and it’s not an exaggeration. It’s not make fucking believe how many times have movies and TV shows predicted the future. How many times do you have to fucking see it before you really understand that that’s actually something that’s going to happen if people don’t wake the fuck up.
@Who_datt_
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
It’s pretty simple with AI. They are simulating the human brain with a neural network and then they train these AI models off of information from the Internet pretty much everything that human beings have ever said or done online or in real life they get examples of that right we’re surprised that they manipulate deceive some nice summer smart some stupid just like fucking human being. We have complete monsters out there murderers rapist, etc. and then we’ve got really good people really smart people really fucking dumb people. How is this any Different? Yes we’re human beings were real. We’re sentient, but we’re trying to replicate our human way of thinking our thought process processes right there you go it’s fucking psychology 101 dude.
@CharlesJamison-w2l
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
This nonsense way of thinking seems to have infected the human race. It’s as if we have been reprogrammed somehow.
@AlexBrown-js2gx
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
the black box problem really is just a retarded internet problem. In the ai's experience, that's is its world. No, that is what it is
@macdmacd7896
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
if you create artificial consciousness and insert it into the 5 Ais theyll do the same global destruction reset after reset, planet after planet
they need a manual as sort of holy book
@Manchesterforlife2026
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
If the pope says we need to end ai then that should be enough for the world to realise.
@ubermacv2
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Good we're running these simulations. Helps us plan and prepare to make this suicide NOT happen!
@emperor002002
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Meh serves humanity right.
@surgekush
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Really curious where the 2 billion that survived were
@צביהתירוש
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
What clickbait title example
: let me be unresponsible and design my ai as a evil as it can be and be suprised theres evil results? Its like giving evryone nukes whh are we not doing it? Bc its not responsible its all what if paranoid attack in yourbrain wich is unhealthy touch some grass bro i like how the video assumes a slave mentality towards a machine
@susanbaker3072
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Really helpful and explained nicely to,dummies who can still worry.
@Anotherpriestandminister
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
4:55 what’s interesting is that you didn’t tell them they couldn’t work together but they chose to
@Anotherpriestandminister
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
I will say although I’m only one minute into the video. I don’t like the idea of AI being so huge. It’s a good tool but they are making the world think we need it when we haven’t needed it for all of our existence.
The more we say yes. The more that can never ever go back to “normal” or “simple”
Also.
Whatever AI the military is using I promise civilians and private companies don’t have access to it unless contracted by the military to use it
@jamescoons4290
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
The probability of AI ending civilization was still much lower than the probability of Trump doing so, yet people elected him anyway.
@TheJProtocol
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Yeah from what I've researched on the AI possible dangerous outcome for humans was between 12 and 17% and in my opinion that is well worth the risk for the beneficial payoff for humanity I mean we've taken bigger risks already
@cyrilambata190
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Don't forget to consider that if rogue agents in the wild would have widely different tendencies, it would be more like a free for all game with humans caught in the middle, with alliances, betrayals and whatever regardless whether it involves humans or not.
@BorysKuzmann-tg6hx
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
No Profit should BE a Goal for asuper ai Take them from the hands away AS wee can time for a Revolution Evolution wee Must puse or Like slow down and make Something from Scratch BC now they are all slop but WE can make IT ouer Kid and a good Kid Look after the ppl they give them freedom Like a Simulation when Shit down or Stands by so the are also happy
@thecreativetechgod-h7b
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
THIS IS JUST A HYPOTHETICAL SIMULATION DOESN’T MEAN ITS TRUE AND ITS GOING TO HAPPEN ITS A TESTING EXPERIMENT NOT ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC FACT
@whizadree
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
ASI will be here in months not years or decades
@whizadree
August 10, 2026 at 7:26 am
Why did you give deepseek power why not swap each ai with each tier and each goal
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