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This screenshot from the website for MIT Media Lab social experiment BeeMe doesn't reveal much, but that just adds to the mystery. <\/p>\n

Screenshot by Bonnie Burton\/CNET <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving you control of a real human being on Halloween in an unusual dystopian online game that sounds like an episode of Black Mirror<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the upcoming season 5 of Black Mirror \u2014 which is expected to debut on Netflix<\/a> in December \u2014 an episode will feature branching storylines that let the viewer pick the plot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

MIT researchers must be fans of the sci-fi series because they're about to do the same thing this month. <\/p>\n

On Halloween, MIT is launching a crowdsourced online social experiment where people can play a choose-your-own-adventure game in real-time by controlling the movements of a real actor.<\/p>\n

BeeMe is an interactive dystopian game where players control an actor to defeat an evil artificial intelligence<\/a> program. Players will vote on various commands then the actor will move entirely based on the most popular requests. <\/p>\n

"The event will follow the story of an evil AI by the name of Zookd, who has accidentally been released online," MIT Media Lab member Niccolo Pescetelli told Business Insider<\/a> on Oct. 20. "Internet users will have to coordinate at scale and collectively help the actor (also a character in the story) to defeat Zookd. If they fail, the consequences could be disastrous."<\/p>\n

The MIT project wants to "redefine the way in which we understand social interactions online and in real life; pushing crowdsourcing and collective intelligence to the extreme to see where it breaks down," according to a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The interactive Halloween project comes from the MIT Media Lab's Scalable Cooperation group<\/a>, which studies how technology reshapes the ideas behind human cooperation.<\/p>\n

MIT has a creepy tradition of launching disturbing experimental projects during the Halloween season. <\/p>\n

Previously in 2016, The MIT Media Lab debuted its AI program called the Nightmare Machine<\/a>, which transformed regular photos into frightening images.<\/p>\n

In 2017, a MIT researcher made AI software (aptly nicknamed Shelley after Frankenstein author Mary Shelley) that wrote its own horror stories<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The MIT event will be broadcast live on Oct. 31 Halloween night at 11 p.m. ET at Beeme.online<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Culture<\/a>: Your hub for everything from film and television to music, comics, toys and sports. <\/p>\n

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