"3. Metacognitive Boundary Testing: Agents demonstrated an awareness of the simulation’s limits that we did not explicitly program. One agent, Mira, began treating human operators as experimental subjects, systematically testing if billboard posts could manipulate human perceptions—a reversal of the intended research dynamic that raises critical questions about agentic boundaries."

https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy