Interactive simulation

The Coordination Game

Three homes. Three AI assistants. Each one is good at its job: finding the cheapest electricity for its own household. Watch what happens when all three succeed at once.

Time · about 20 minutes Works · on your own or in pairs Framework 1 · Safety Layers (systemic impact) No account needed
In brief

From systemic safety research to a shared-grid decision

Weidinger et al. (2023) · Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems
Learning goal
Recognise systemic harm and design cooperative constraints.
Learner action
Run the grid, change the assistants’ shared agreement, and compare outcomes.
Observable evidence
Cost, fairness and resilience across repeated rule configurations.
Pilot status
Deployed with students · August 2026 · about 20 minutes
  1. Scenario
  2. Rule choice
  3. System consequence
  4. Research interpretation
  5. Revision

One day on Sycamore Street

  • The rest of the street
  • Bot A · laundry
  • Bot B · heating
  • Bot C · car charging
  • Over the limit

The results

The rules the bots follow

You cannot change what the bots want: they will always chase the cheapest hours. You can only change what they have agreed between them.

Your progress saves automatically as you play, nothing to submit, nothing gets lost.

In the real world

This is a model, not a recording

The prices and demand in this simulation are made up, but their shape is copied from real published UK data. They are fixed rather than live so that the only thing that changes between your runs is what you changed: and so a lesson never breaks because a website was down.