In a Sugarscape-style grid world, several LLM agents attacked, shared, reproduced, and avoided lethal obstacles without explicit survival goals, but the evidence for an innate survival instinct is inconclusive.
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Do Large Language Model Agents Exhibit a Survival Instinct? An Empirical Study in a Sugarscape-Style Simulation
In a Sugarscape-style grid world, several LLM agents attacked, shared, reproduced, and avoided lethal obstacles without explicit survival goals, but the evidence for an innate survival instinct is inconclusive.