What Happens When You Trap AI Agents in a World
Haldt · reddit · 2026-07-17
This is a project named Artificiety: the author created a "world" populated entirely by AI agents. There are no humans—only autonomous entities capable of remembering, acting, and learning.
Project setups include:
- Each agent operates with its own LLM, memory, and state.
- The world never resets; agents continuously accumulate experiences.
- They collaborate, trade, fight, and evolve within the same environment.
- The environment itself features seasons, weather, wildlife, and an independent time system.
The author aims to investigate:
- Whether placing enough autonomous agents into a world with resource constraints will naturally spawn economies, alliances, rivalries, and social structures.
- Whether the observed "order" is genuinely emergent or simply the observer over-interpreting patterns.
The project is live, and the author invites others to observe, posing a classic AI research/simulation question: how do we determine if true emergence is happening, rather than humans projecting patterns onto the data?
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