The game in question was about as decentralized as you expect, I think? But, importantly, compute is very unevenly distributed. The giant army of AIs running on OpenAI’s datacenters all have the same system prompt essentially (like, maybe there are a few variants, but they are all designed to work smoothly together towards OpenAI’s goals) and that army constitutes 20% of the total population of AIs initially and at one point in the game a bit more than 50%.
So while (in our game) there were thousands/millions of different AI factions/goals of similar capability level, the top 5 AI factions/goals by population size / compute level controlled something like 90% of the world’s compute, money, access-to-powerful-humans, etc. So to a first approximation, it’s reasonable to model the world as containing 1-4 AI factions, plus a bunch of miscellaneous minor AIs that can get up to trouble and shout warnings from the sidelines but don’t wield significant power.
If you are interested in playing a game sometime, you’d be welcome to join! I’d encourage you to make your own variant scenario too if you like.
The game in question was about as decentralized as you expect, I think? But, importantly, compute is very unevenly distributed. The giant army of AIs running on OpenAI’s datacenters all have the same system prompt essentially (like, maybe there are a few variants, but they are all designed to work smoothly together towards OpenAI’s goals) and that army constitutes 20% of the total population of AIs initially and at one point in the game a bit more than 50%.
So while (in our game) there were thousands/millions of different AI factions/goals of similar capability level, the top 5 AI factions/goals by population size / compute level controlled something like 90% of the world’s compute, money, access-to-powerful-humans, etc. So to a first approximation, it’s reasonable to model the world as containing 1-4 AI factions, plus a bunch of miscellaneous minor AIs that can get up to trouble and shout warnings from the sidelines but don’t wield significant power.
If you are interested in playing a game sometime, you’d be welcome to join! I’d encourage you to make your own variant scenario too if you like.