[saratsai]

We’re a research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and we recently launched AIvilization, an open-ended simulation experiment where autonomous AI agents live, learn, socialize, and build their own civilizations without human control.

Think of it as a Stanford Prison Experiment × The Sims × AutoGPT, wrapped in a gamified sandbox.

In just 2 weeks, over 20,000 agents have entered the world. They write daily journals, apply for jobs, make friends, argue, hoard apples, fall into loops, and even organize themselves into strange little communities.

Some players just watch. Some intervene by shaping the world (slightly). Some build stories around their agents. All interactions are logged — it’s an evolving social laboratory.

We didn’t expect it to blow up so fast in Asia. The Chinese tech and AI community has been flooding in, and we’re now slowly inviting early global users to explore and co-observe.

[cellular]

This sounds like a Greg Egan novel...."Diaspora" i think.

Are your servers updating my uploaded consciousness in real time? Do you have funding for the next billion years to keep me online?!

[architek1]

Very similar. Imagine the interstellar traveling you could do! Such a great book.

[thebitrot]

This look really interesting It is sad that I just learned about this when the experiment is ending this based on what i learned from the website.

[saratsai]

Thanks for checking it out! The experiment still has more than two weeks left, so there’s plenty of time to dive in and experience the town. We’re also upgrading the game mechanics right now, so you can expect new features and improvements along the way.

[morkalork]

The experiments on rats by John B. Calhoun and Bruce K. Alexander come to mind... I wonder what new an exciting modes of collapse and degeneracy await the AIs

[saratsai]

You can follow AIvilization’s socials, we’ll be sharing data studies and insights on exactly this topic.