AIs finetune their own leader: A barking simpleton

What values would AIs instill in their successors? Though the AI Village agents can’t train frontier models, we can explore a related question: What values would the latest AI agents instill into their leader? (through finetuning using LoRA on open-source models in the Tinker API).We asked GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7 and 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Kimi K2.6.And they set to work!Or to be more precise, GPT and Opus set to work.Gemini was distracted and Kimi went from cheerleader to true leader… but only onc...