There was this AI civilization approach shared here a couple of weeks ago, that I think is an interesting move in this direction - https://news.ycombinator.com/

There was this AI civilization approach shared here a couple of weeks ago, that I think is an interesting move in this direction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42035319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42035319