China created a system that simulates the Earth with billions of AI agents
How To Prompt@HowToPrompt__China created a system that simulates the earth with billions of AI agents that has real personality, memory, beliefs and human-like desires. it gives them a terrifying ability to predict the future. they published a paper called "Modeling Earth-Scale…
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| Original publisher | X (formerly Twitter) |
| Canonical URL | https://twitter.com/howtoprompt__/status/2086110097663795365 |
| Publication time | Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:20:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-09T12:25:42.113Z |
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How To Prompt@HowToPrompt__China created a system that simulates the earth with billions of AI agents that has real personality, memory, beliefs and human-like desires. it gives them a terrifying ability to predict the future. they published a paper called "Modeling Earth-Scale Human-Like Societies with One Billion Agents." they built "Light Society," a framework that efficiently models human-like societies powered by large language models. traditional agent-based models were always limited by simple, predictable behaviors. but this new earth-scale simulation framework uses a "mixture-of-models" engine to change everything. by combining massive llms with smaller, highly efficient distilled surrogates, the researchers successfully simulated a society of over one billion autonomous agents.
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