From AI Villages to AI Corporations: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Our Understanding of Society and Work

BritishProfessor
5 min readOct 14, 2024

In my previous article , we’ve discussed the nature of AI agents and their expertise. Today, let’s explore some groundbreaking research on AI agents that holds promise not just for HR, but for social sciences at large.

Particularly intriguing is how simulations of AI agents performing various roles within organizations could contribute to HR practices. This approach applies the concept of Digital Twins to HR, allowing us to virtually recreate real-world organizations and experiment with various scenarios. The following cases demonstrate how these simulations could innovatively be applied in the HR field.

*Digital Twin: a technology that creates a virtual replica of a real-world object and predicts outcomes by simulating potential real-world situations on a computer.)

Case 1: Smallville — A Village Where AI Agents Live

Generative agents: Interactive simulacra of human behavior (Park et al. 2023)

Imagine a scene from the game “The Sims,” but populated entirely by AI agents…

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BritishProfessor
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HR Data Scientist / Researcher in OB/Strategy | MS in Data Science at Duke University | Author of 'Data-Driven Report' | Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/josephleess/

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