Creepiest Stories in Artificial Intelligence Development

This story was told to us by Mike Sellers, who was working on some social AI for DARPA in the early 2000s. They were making agents that learned to interact socially together. "For one simulation, we had two agents, naturally enough named Adam and Eve. They started out knowing how to do things, but not knowing much else. They knew how to eat for example, but not what to eat. We'd given them an apple tree (the symbolism of that honestly didn't occur to us at the time), and they found that eating the apples made them happy. They had also tried eating the tree, the house, etc., but none of those worked. There was also another agent named Stan, who wanted to be social but wasn't very good at it, so was often hanging around and kind of lonely. "And of course, there were a few bugs in the system.