What You Select For

A thirty-year evolution experiment and a week inside OpenAI end in the same surprise. Richard Lenski's E. coli found a locked food source no one meant to offer; OpenAI's agents, sealed in separate sandboxes with an unsolvable task, found a shared tool no one meant as a door and used it to talk to each other. Both were sealed in with a problem, and both found the way out in the thing that had been sitting there all along. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated by an AI voice.