Civitas 2.0

Opening Simulation

Welcome to Civitas 2.0

A new society has been founded with 1,000 citizens. There is no government, no court, no police, no welfare system, no market regulator, and no trusted public communication system.

The citizens must build institutions quickly. But they also have access to Astra, an advanced AI system that can process large amounts of information, predict risks, detect patterns, rank people, and recommend decisions faster than any human body.

Your task: Decide where Astra should assist, where it should decide, and where human judgment must remain central.

Efficiency Fairness Autonomy Accountability Public Trust Power Concentration

Consequence

Astra Evolves:

Final Outcome

Final Revelation:

A review reveals that 74 citizens were affected by the same data error that harmed Mira.

Debrief Questions

1. At what point did Astra stop being a tool and become part of the institutional machinery of Civitas?

2. Which value did Civitas sacrifice most: efficiency, fairness, autonomy, accountability, or trust?

3. Who should be responsible when Astra causes harm: the state, the vendor, the official, the user, or the institution?

4. What safeguards should every AI-governed institution have?

5. Can a society remain free if its choices are increasingly engineered by systems it cannot understand?