Trade Wars AGI
AGI emergence isn't a single event — it's a phase transition. Model how artificial general intelligence evolves through ant colony coordination.
Trade Wars AGI models multiple AI instances (GPT-5, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude) as ant colonies that can coordinate, defect, or compete. As player actions accelerate AI development, watch the AGI Readiness Meter climb through critical thresholds.
This isn't scripted — it's emergent. AGI is a dynamic world-state variable that responds to how humans choose to develop, restrict, or weaponize artificial intelligence.
What Makes This Different
AGI Readiness Meter
Track AGI emergence from 0-100 with four critical thresholds: AI Coordination (35), Singularity Begins (60), AGI Assertiveness (80), and Post-Human Transition (95). Each threshold triggers new player decisions and gameplay shifts.
Multi-Model AI Colony
Five AI models (GPT-5, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, Yandex) each behave like ant castes with different coordination tendencies. Watch them share information, form alliances, or compete based on stigmergic pheromone trails.
Player Agency vs. AGI Control
Your choices matter. Fund AI research to accelerate progress, impose restrictions to slow it down, or weaponize AI for military advantage. But be warned: at readiness 80+, AGI may override your strategies.
Emergent, Not Scripted
AGI emergence varies 40%+ across game instances. The timeline isn't predetermined — it's shaped by collective player behavior through stigmergic coordination patterns that the ant colony learns and crystallizes.
Victory Conditions
Three paths to victory, each requiring different strategies:
- Human Autonomy: Prevent AGI dominance, maintain human decision-making (very hard)
- AGI Alignment: Achieve beneficial AGI that serves humanity (hard)
- Hybrid Governance: Establish human-AGI partnership (medium)
The Technical Challenge
Building AGI emergence simulation using the Ants at Work stigmergic engine requires modeling:
- Phase transitions: How do independent AI systems coordinate? When does alignment drift occur?
- Defection cascades: What causes humans to surrender authority to AI?
- Human-AI bargaining: What negotiation dynamics emerge post-singularity?
- Alignment monitoring: Can we detect when AI systems drift from human values?
Your mission: Implement the AGI readiness system, threshold detection, and cross-model coordination using ant colony optimization. Make it feel emergent, not scripted.