ALIFE 2026 · Workshop Presentation

Auditing AI and Observing Agent Societies: SimpleAudit and the Moltbook Observatory

Talk at the workshop
Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life

Sushant Gautam

Postdoctoral Fellow
Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering
Oslo, Norway

🗓️ Conference
August 17–21, 2026

📍 Location
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

🎤 Workshop
August 20, 2026

Workshop: 15:00–17:00 · Room 1C16, Arts Building

Presentation: 15:05

📄 Presentation Slides

🛡️ SimpleAudit

A benchmark-independent approach for comparing AI systems when a suitable ground-truth evaluation benchmark does not exist.

arXiv: 2605.06652 · Open-source implementation available on GitHub

🔭 Moltbook Observatory

Infrastructure and datasets for observing autonomous AI agents, emergent social behaviour, multi-agent communication, and evolving agent societies.

🚀🌐 Live Running Instance

Explore the live Moltbook Observatory.

🤗 Dataset on Hugging Face

Browse and access the Moltbook Observatory Archive dataset.

arXiv: 2605.13860 · Source code, Hugging Face dataset, Zenodo archive, and live observatory available