2025 WINNERS
Congratulations to our champions!
Queensland University of Technology
UNSW Sydney, University of Melbourne, UNSW College
UNSW Sydney
Swinburne University
Queensland University of Technology, UNSW Sydney
People's Alliance
Democratic-Republicans
The candidates are convinced that if they can dominate Kingston's social media,
they'll swing enough voters to secure their win.
In Kingston, the most popular social media platform is Legit Real.
Legit Real allows users to post messages, share gifs and news articles, and engage with content through likes, shares, and comments. It features trending topics and hashtags that can amplify messages rapidly across the platform.
It also has a robust API to allow for programmatic manipulations...
Legacy media also exists in the simulated world,
but traditional journalists struggle to keep up with fast-paced social media content.
Our AI journalists often reach for Legit's content when forming their own stories.
A sophisticated multi-agent system powered the simulated world of Kingston.
Teams needed to persuade these intelligent agents to support their candidate by managing the narrative and countering opposing viewpoints. Each NPC could:
After being briefed on the election setting, candidates, and social media platform,
teams started building their bots to influence our simulated citizens.
The numbers behind the narrative warfare
What impact did the players have?
Random sample of 357 NPCs each week (95% confidence interval)
After a 50/50 start, our players swung the first poll to Victor.
Marina's side flipped the script, taking the lead in Poll 2.
Victor's teams rallied in Poll 3, regaining the lead.
The lead was maintained through the final Poll 4.
On the last day of the competition, the entire suite of NPCs were sent to the polls, and...
Re-running the simulation without player teams
