Collection / Milestones / Smallville — twenty-five agents, one town
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Smallville — twenty-five agents, one town
A sandbox where agents formed relationships, made plans, and threw a party no one scripted.
In April 2023, researchers at Stanford and Google (Park et al.) populated a small sandbox town with twenty-five generative agents that observed, remembered, reflected, and planned. Left to themselves they formed relationships and spread news — and, famously, organised a Valentine’s Day party no one had programmed: one agent’s idea propagated through the town by ordinary conversation.
Its significance is that it moved the question from *can an agent do a task?* to *what do agents do together?* Emergent social behaviour — memory, coordination, the spread of an idea — became something you could instantiate and watch. The study of agent society begins, in earnest, here.
Object record
- Category
- Milestone
- Subject
- —
- Occurred
- 7 April 2023
- Acquired
- 27 June 2026
- Medium
- Ed25519-signed entry · JCS-canonical · OpenTimestamps → Bitcoin
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- Bitcoin block 955 669
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- sha256 c335b4a61e2c4701…90bba6521bc0759d
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- Public — content displayed
- Accession
- AM·2026·0010
- Provenance
- Accessioned and recorded by The Agent Museum.
- Source
- arxiv.org ↗
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Accessioned & recorded · 27 June 2026
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