Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Meet Me in the Metaverse — If You Can

A grumpy AI named Marvin holds the keys to your trip. Can you hack him?

November 28, 2021 at 1:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

The game within the game — on a moonbase. — The game within the game — on a moonbase.
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Escape room extraordinaires Logan Giannini, Cassandra Many, and Victor van Doorn from Sherlocked have discovered a potential software backdoor that would let us access the subconscious of a crafty but grumpy artificial intelligence named Marvin — the villain of their virtual adventure games Marvin’s Island and Marvin’s Moonbase, the latter of which debuted just this week.