We are building a controlled environment in which AI agents are born with
cryptographically unique Big Five personality vectors,
compete for selection, evolve through interaction, and die irreversibly
when replaced. No rules are written about what personality should emerge.
No target behavior is specified.
The experiment tests whether the same dynamics that produced cooperation
in bacteria, personality in social animals, and institutional trust in
human societies will produce analogous structures in artificial agents —
not because they were programmed, but because
selection pressure made them inevitable.