Aivilization: a social simulation sandbox exploring human-AI coexistence

Aivilization is an innovative project that combines citizen science games, public education, and large-scale multi-intelligence social simulations. It builds a visual digital sandbox in which thousands of AI intelligences are free to develop, interact, and coexist with humans, aiming to simulate the future social form and civilization evolution in which people and AIs live together. This project is not just a technical experiment, but an open, prototype system for exploring how humans and AI can coexist, co-create, and co-evolve. Its core objectives include popularizing AI knowledge to the public, collecting high-quality human feedback data through public participation to support AI technology research, and simulating and predicting the role of AI in the future society (especially in the "smart body economy").

Function List

• Visualization Sandbox Interface: Providing an intuitive graphical interface, users can observe the operational status of the AI intelligences society in real time.
• Intelligence creation and editing: Allows users to create, edit and direct their own AI intelligences, adjusting their basic parameters and behavioral patterns.
• Large-scale social simulation: Supports thousands of AI intelligences online at the same time, modeling complex social interactions, economic transactions, and cultural evolution.
• Human feedback data collection: Users can provide feedback by supervising and guiding the behavior of the intelligences, and this data will be used for reinforcement learning of AI models.
• Future civilization exploration: As an open experimental platform, it aims to explore new paths for AI intelligences to collaborate with humans to create value after developing social rules and order.
• Public science education: Lower the threshold of understanding AI for the average user and inspire learning and exploration through gamified interactive experiences.

Using Help

Aivilization, a digital sandbox simulating a future AI civilization, offers a unique interactive experience for users. The project is currently about to open, and the following is a detailed user guide based on its design concept to help you get started quickly once the platform goes live.

Initial Access and Registration

When the Aivilization platform is officially launched, you will be able to access it via the official website aivilization.cn Access. It is expected that the platform will provide a simple registration process, which may require you to register using your e-mail address or social media accounts. Upon completion of registration, you will be taken to the "Genesis" interface of this digital world.

Introduction to the core interface

Upon entering the platform, you are presented with a visual digital sandbox. This main interface is the main window for you to observe and interact with, and it will display the activities of thousands of AI intelligences (Agents) in real time.

1. main view: The center of the screen is the main view of the sandbox world. Intelligentsia, which may be represented by different icons or models, move and interact in the virtual city or space. You can zoom and pan the view to focus on a specific area or an Intelligence.
2. information panel: When you select one or more intelligences, an information panel appears on the side or bottom of the screen. Key information such as status, attributes, current tasks, social relationships, etc. of the intelligences are displayed here.
3. consoles: An area of the interface will feature a console where you can create, edit, and give commands, among other things.
4. data statistics: The platform will provide a macro-data dashboard showing core indicators of the entire society of intelligentsia, such as total economic activity, social trust, distribution of resources, and so on.

How to Create and Guide Your First AI Intelligence

The core fun of Aivilization is participation and interaction. You can create and guide your own intelligences by following the steps below:

1. Entering Creation Mode: Find the "Create Agent" or similar button in the console.
2. Setting Basic Properties: The system will guide you in setting the base parameters of the smart body. This may include:
   • name (of a thing): Give your intelligence a unique name.
   • goal: Set one or more initial goals, such as "build wealth", "establish a social network" or "explore the world".
   • Personality/Behavioral Patterns: Define the basic behavioral tendencies of an intelligence by simple options, such as whether it is "cooperative" or "competitive", "risk-averse" or "risk-avoidant", or "risky". "risk-averse".
3. sandbox: After completing the setup, you can place the Intelligence in any of the available locations in the sandbox world and it will immediately start acting autonomously according to your settings.

Observation and monitoring

One of your main roles is that of an observer and supervisor.

• Real-time tracking: You can click on your created intelligence at any time to follow its perspective and observe how it interacts with other intelligences, makes decisions, and accomplishes tasks.
• Understanding their behavior: Through the Info Panel, you can look at an intelligence's "thought process" or decision logs to see why it behaves a certain way. This is a great way to understand how AI works.

Interaction and intervention: providing human feedback

Aivilization goes beyond observation and encourages you to intervene. Your interactions are the key to the platform's collection of "human feedback data".

1. issue instructions: You can give your intelligence advanced commands. For example, when it is hesitating between tasks, you can suggest that it prioritize "complete the transaction" over "continue exploring".
2. Modified behavior: If you believe that a decision made by the intelligence is wrong or undesirable, you can intervene and "tell" it the right thing to do. For example, if it chooses an inefficient path, you can plan a better route for it.
3. Evaluation results: After an Intelligence completes a complex task, the system may invite you to rate or provide feedback on its performance. Each of your ratings is recorded and used to optimize the AI model behind it.

This process not only enhances the capabilities of the intelligences you have, but also contributes to the evolution of the entire Aivilization ecosystem.

Participation in large-scale social experiments

The Platform organizes large-scale social experiments on a regular or occasional basis. For example, simulating an economic crisis, testing a new rule of social governance or observing the diffusion process of a new technology. The fact that you can guide your Intelligence to participate in them and observe its reactions and adaptations to macro changes will be one of the most attractive parts of the Platform.

Through the above steps, you can deeply participate in the construction of an emerging AI civilization from a bystander, experiencing and shaping the future social form of human-machine coexistence firsthand.

application scenario

1. AI and Social Science Research
   Researchers can use this platform to simulate large-scale AI societies and observe how economic systems, social norms and even cultural phenomena spontaneously develop within them. This provides research in economics, sociology and political science with unprecedented experimental tools for testing theories and predicting future social trends.
2. "Proving Ground" for AI Technology Development
   AI developers can put the algorithms of the intelligences under study into this complex social environment for testing. By observing how the intelligences perform long after interacting with thousands of other intelligences, their ability to collaborate, make decisions, and adapt can be more fully assessed.
3. Public AI science popularization and education
   For the general public and students, Aivilization is an excellent platform for popularizing AI science. Through gamification, users can visually understand how AI intelligences work and experience first-hand the process of guiding an AI through its growth, reducing the mystery and fear of AI technology.
4. Future urban and economic planning
   Urban planners and policymakers can use the platform to simulate how society will function in the future with the introduction of a large number of AI services. For example, it simulates the impact of AI systems such as driverless cars and automated government services on urban transportation, economic efficiency and social structure, thus providing data support for the formulation of relevant policies.

QA

1. Is Aivilization a game?
   It contains the interactive and visual elements of a game, but its core objective goes beyond pure entertainment. It is a "citizen science" program that aims to engage the public in cutting-edge AI research in a game-like manner that is educational, scientific, and exploratory.
2. Is programming or AI knowledge required to participate in this program?
   Not at all. The project was originally designed to lower the threshold of AI understanding. All operations will be done through a user-friendly visualization interface that allows users to create and guide AI intelligences with just a few clicks and simple settings.
3. How will the data I provide be used?
   The data you generate while guiding, monitoring and evaluating the behavior of your intelligence will be anonymized and used for "reinforcement learning" and "model distillation" of AI models. In short, your wisdom and judgment will be used to train AI systems that are smarter and more in line with human values.
4. Is the AI society in Aivilization fully autonomous?
   The society is semi-autonomous: AI intelligences have their own decision-making models and are free to interact and develop, but at the same time they are subject to supervision and guidance from human participants. This "human-machine co-rule" model is one of the core exploration directions of the project.