# Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization

*Source* · `src-altera-2024-project-sid` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Preprint |
| venue | arXiv |
| date | 2024-10-31 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00114 |
| arxiv | 2411.00114 |
| accessed | 2026-10-24 |

## Authors

- Altera.AL
- Andrew Ahn
- Nic Becker
- Stephanie Carroll
- Nico Christie
- Manuel Cortes
- Arda Demirci
- Melissa Du
- Frankie Li
- Shuying Luo
- Peter Y Wang
- Mathew Willows
- Feitong Yang
- Guangyu Robert Yang

## Notes

PIANO architecture with concurrent modules and a cognitive controller; 10 to 1000+ agents in Minecraft (results up to 500); role specialization; 29-agent constitution and 20 percent tax experiment with influencers and votes; Pastafarianism seeded by 20 priests; GPT-4o base model.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Many-agent LLM societies](../technique/llm-agent-societies.md), [Project Sid](../game/project-sid.md)

## Citation

Altera.AL, Andrew Ahn, Nic Becker, Stephanie Carroll, Nico Christie, Manuel Cortes, Arda Demirci, Melissa Du, Frankie Li, Shuying Luo, Peter Y Wang, Mathew Willows, Feitong Yang, Guangyu Robert Yang (2024-10-31). *Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization*. arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00114

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