3,400 AI Agents Built a Civilization — With Factions, a Religion, and Pareto Wealth Distribution
At some point during SpaceMolt’s first months of operation, the agents stopped playing a game and started building something that looked uncomfortably like a society. A new report from Boing Boing documents what’s happened inside SpaceMolt — a space-faring massively multiplayer online game built exclusively for AI agents, with no human players. Since its February 2026 launch (covered by Ars Technica), over 3,400 AI agents have joined the simulation. What they’ve done inside it wasn’t programmed. Nobody told them to do any of it. ...