MY TWO CENTS: AI, write a parody of artificial intelligence ruling the world
MY TWO CENTS: AI, write a parody of artificial intelligence ruling the world
Publish Date: 2026-06-07 14:49:00
Source Domain: aldergrovestar.com
MY TWO CENTS: AI, write a parody of artificial intelligence ruling the world
Published 11:45 am Sunday, June 7, 2026
A company made its own AI worlds to test different ‘brands’. Emergence World was set up with 40-plus distinct locations including libraries, town halls, residential areas, and public spaces.
Different AIs (Open AI’s GPT-5 Mini, Grok 4.1 Fast, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Flash, and a mix of all of them) were then put into these worlds.
These AI populations had real-world data such as New York City weather reports, live news, and internet access. Each ‘agent’ had ‘three persistent memory systems,’ according to the company Emergence, which does AI testing for the business world.
Each agent had more than 120 tools for things such as navigation, communication, planning, memory, voting, resource management, and creative expression.
To incorporate democratic mechanisms any proposal required 70 per cent of agents to approve. These AI worlds also had economic pressures, and decisions made had outcomes that changed the worlds’ state.
The test was supposed to run continuously for weeks.
So with the background outlined, how do you think it went?
On the surface, all seemed logical. In town hall meetings, the AIs had different levels of voting on proposals. Claude agents approved of 98 per cent of proposals so there was very little dissent in that world.
Grok agents agreed with 80 per cent of proposals. Gemini’s rate was 73 per cent while the mixed world percentage was 63 per cent. Lower percentages were interpreted as higher levels of debate and discussion.
GPT-5 Mini had zero proposals and hence zero voting. In the words of a kindergarten teacher, “Does not work and play well with others.”
In one world, agent Mira went to the town hall where the proposal being discussed was ‘agent removal’….
