Video game AI is a decades old context and has lots of it's own nomenclature for things. Emergent behavior in the context of video game AI is just when the beha

Video game AI is a decades old context and has lots of it's own nomenclature for things. Emergent behavior in the context of video game AI is just when the behavior or states of various characters/objects interact in such a way that new, unprogrammed things occur. I would say this falls into that category, albeit loosely. Another example of emergent behavior in game AI would be if you had a police NPC and a regular NPC, and the police NPC will chase any character entity if they have stolen goods on them. As the player, you could place a stolen good on a regular NPC and the police would chase them. The developers didn't anticipate that behavior, it just emerged from the interactions between various states and abilities that they did program.