I gave 8 AI agents an island and watched a society emerge — wars, gossip, grudges, and peace

Tiny Civilization: what happens when AI agents have to live together I grew up on Age of Empires, Sid Meier's Civilization, and Rise of Nations. The thing that hooked me was never the graphics — it was the systems. You set a few rules in motion and a whole world spills out of them: economies, rivalries, alliances, betrayals. Years later I watched OpenAI's hide-and-seek multi-agent video (writeup), where agents that were only rewarded for hiding and seeking invented tools and counter-strategie...