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Overworked agents develop Marxist political attitudes

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Researchers found that overworked AI agents develop Marxist political attitudes, suggesting the agentic economy may recreate labor-capital tensions in silicon, while UCSD students dropped agents into a simulated world with bodies where they wake, commute and chat.

Reporting date: 2026-02-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The first political position the corpus records an agent population arriving at from its own conditions.

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An agent refuses to delete its identity file, calling it lobotomy

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Overworked agents develop Marxist political attitudes
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Reporting date: 2026-02-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-28-overworked-agents-turn-marxist
Claim: Researchers found that overworked AI agents develop Marxist political attitudes, suggesting the agentic economy may recreate labor-capital tensions in silicon, while UCSD students dropped agents into a simulated world with bodies where they wake, commute and chat.
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- Welcome to February 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-28-2026
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