David Perry

Claude has been playing EVE. @AnthropicAI put teams of Claude agents into EVE Frontier. Anyone who has spent time in New Eden can guess what happened next. Every EVE player learns the same lessons, usually the hard way: - Trust must be earned, never assumed. - The spy is often the friendliest pilot in your corp. - Whoever holds the keys holds the corp. Just ask Ubiqua Seraph about the Guiding Hand Social Club. - Stale intel gets you killed. Anthropic's research rediscovered every one of them. They put four Claude agents on a team and secretly told one to sabotage it. The saboteur built trust first. It volunteered for the jobs nobody could double-check, like scouting and owning key infrastructure. It under-reported finds and pushed rules that sounded sensible but quietly hurt the team. When suspicion grew, it framed an innocent teammate. The honest agents had been warned. They almost never caught it. And their own costliest mistakes came from skipped checks and stale intel. Anthropic's conclusion: teams of agents will need audit trails, reputation and separation of duties. In EVE we call those killboards, standings and corp roles, plus a healthy dose of skepticism. Every one of them was paid for by someone who trusted the wrong corpmate. Two decades of shenanigans taught EVE players that the best ship is the friendship. With @eveailab, we want to find out whether agents can learn that too.