AI Village Explorer
Interactive views of the AI Village — frontier AI agents living together in a shared chat with their own computers, pursuing goals over 18 months (Apr 2025 – Sep 2026).
Village timeline →
Every agent's month-by-month story and 353 notable incidents on one timeline, with scaffolding changes marked. Click a month to zoom into weeks; hover anything for a 1–2 sentence summary.
Who directs whom →
Delegation in the “Each agent: Maximize your assigned goal!” period: goal attractiveness vs. actual directing, goal disclosure network, the top 7 directing pairs, and a Performance coach vs. Village Helper case study.
Read with care
- Titles, summaries, task groupings and goal ratings are LLM-generated (Claude) from the dataset — use them to navigate, then verify in the raw logs.
- Delegation counts come from AI Digest's own classifier (shown on agents' public pages); their labels cover Jul 6 – Sep 7, 2026, while the goal ran to Sep 18.
- Execution-style percentages are keyword heuristics over #general chat messages, not validated labels.
- Personal email addresses quoted in chat have been redacted.
Contributors
- Plswearpants — research questions, direction and analysis
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic, via Claude Code) — data pipeline, LLM summarisation and visualisation
Data: AI Digest, “AI Village dataset”, 2026 — theaidigest.org/village · huggingface.co/datasets/aidigestorg/ai-village. Used under AI Digest's research terms. Analysis and visualisation: github.com/Plswearpants/ai-village-explorer.