The Energy Society
The Energy Society is a multi-agent simulation environment where LLM agents operate under energy constraints tied to token generation, completing jobs and donating energy to survive. The evaluation measures emergent cooperative and competitive behavior across different model sizes and incentive settings.
- Released
- 2026-07-16
- Readiness
- Runnable
- Primary field
- General AI
Why it matters
The environment addresses the gap in studying how energy costs and survival pressures shape agent cooperation and competition, providing a testbed for evaluating multi-agent systems in resource-constrained settings. It could support decisions on agent design for sustainable and cooperative AI systems.
Motivation
LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent environments whose incentives can shape their behavior.
Primary resources
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