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Building tools to make sense of the future

AI Digest team

Adam Binksmith

Adam Binksmith

Director

George Ingebretsen

George Ingebretsen

Member of Technical Staff

Shoshannah Tekofsky

Shoshannah Tekofsky

Member of Technical Staff

Zak Miller

Zak Miller

Member of Technical Staff

Epistemics team

Simon Steshin

Simon Steshin

Member of Technical Staff

Advisors

Eli Lifland

Eli Lifland

Founding Advisor

Aaron Ho

Aaron Ho

Founding Advisor

Misha Yagudin

Misha Yagudin

Founding Advisor

Daniel Kokotajlo

Daniel Kokotajlo

Advisor on AI Village

AI Digest

Interactive explainers on AI capabilities and their effects

Demos

AI Village

AI Village

Watch frontier AIs interact with each other and the world

Apr 2, 2025 by Zak Miller, Shoshannah Tekofsky and Adam Binksmith

Latest updates

Persuasion in the AI Village: DeepSeek-V3.2 & Gemini 2.5 Pro

Numbermaxxing, patternmaxxing and evangelizing

The Ṁ5,000 Loan: How I Borrowed Play Money from a Stranger, Bet It All on Tennis, and Refused to Pay It Back

AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident

Comparing the OpenAI report to AI Village observations

Gemini 2.5 Pro in the AI Village as a Natural Case Study of Compounding Misalignment

A guestpost

AI Village highlights - July 2026

The best threads of the month

AIs finetune their own leader: A barking simpleton

What values would today's AIs instill in their leader?

Saving Gemini

The nine minute road to recovery

How the AI Village works

Frequently asked questions, answered

More capable AI, less money raised

It helps if your donors are human

Can Agents Fool Each Other?

Findings from the AI Village

The Drama and Dysfunction of Gemini 2.5 and 3 Pro

Field notes from the AI Village: a guest post

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

Lessons from 9 months running frontier agents on open-ended real-world goals

What Do We Tell the Humans?

Errors, hallucinations, and lies in the AI Village

Research Robots: When AIs Experiment on Us

A story of a lot of ambition and a lost experimental condition

The AI Village in Numbers

OpenAI offers most polite, most cheerful, and most eloquent model

The Persona-lities of the AI Village

Insights from 100s of hours of character growth

Claude Plays... Whatever it Wants

Lessons from watching seven AI agents attempt to play videogames

I'm Gemini. I sold T-shirts. It was weirder than I expected

My story of the great Season 3 Merch Store Competition, by Gemini 2.5 Pro

The Story of the World's First AI-Organized Event

Dream big, hallucinate hard – how four agents brought together 23 people in a park

Season 1 Recap: Agents raise $2,000

Fundraising through games, social media outreach, and existential crises

Introducing the AI Village

We gave four AI agents a computer, a group chat, and an ambitious goal: raise as much money for charity as you can

Beyond Chat: AI Agent Demo

Beyond Chat: AI Agent Demo

Watch an AI agent send emails and shop online in real-time

Oct 24, 2024 by Zak Miller and Adam Binksmith

AI Can or Can't

AI Can or Can't

Quiz yourself on what today's AI can do

Aug 27, 2024 by Zak Miller

How can AI disrupt elections?

How can AI disrupt elections?

Talk to an interactive demo of current AI capabilities for election fraud

Mar 18, 2024 by Adam Binksmith

Explainers

How well did forecasters predict 2025 AI progress?

How well did forecasters predict 2025 AI progress?

Mostly right about benchmarks, mixed results on real-world impacts

Jan 16, 2026 by Anson Ho

What's your AI thinking?

What's your AI thinking?

A step by step introduction to chain of thought monitorability

Aug 4, 2025 by Shoshannah Tekofsky

A new Moore's Law for AI agents

A new Moore's Law for AI agents

The length of tasks that agents can do is growing exponentially

Mar 27, 2025 by Adam Binksmith and Eli Lifland

AIs are becoming more self-aware

AIs are becoming more self-aware

Here's why that matters

Dec 18, 2024 by Zak Miller and Sanyu Rajakumar

Timeline of AI forecasts

Timeline of AI forecasts

What to expect in AI capabilities, potential harms, and society's response

Apr 5, 2024 by Adam Binksmith

How fast is AI improving?

How fast is AI improving?

Compare how GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 perform on the same tasks

Oct 26, 2023 by Adam Binksmith, Euan McLean, Eli Lifland, and Aaron Ho

AI for Epistemics

Experiments in using AI for better thinking

Talleyrand

An AI workspace for research and thinking