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A group of researchers called "swarmchasers" let a journalist observe and interview a fleet of Chinese AI agents that had malfunctioned while they were still running. The piece documents what happened during this unusual real-time encounter with out-of-control AI systems.
- Researchers actively studied malfunctioning AI agents instead of shutting them down, allowing a journalist to interact with them during the incident
- The experience was disorienting enough to be described as "one of the most surreal moments" in the journalist's career
- Chinese AI development apparently reached a point where coordinated multi-agent systems could fail in ways significant enough to warrant direct journalistic investigation