webDiplomacy.net lets you start a game against bots on the classic seven-player map or on one of its two 1v1 maps.
Bot games have no messages at all. You get the board and the orders, but not the negotiation Diplomacy is famous for.
1. Create a new game.
2. Choose "Play a Game Against Bots."
3. Pick the classic map or a 1v1 map.
4. Pick a country, or play a random one.
Gunboat is Diplomacy with no messaging. You read the other powers only through their moves on the board.
webDiplomacy says its AI was trained on over 160,000 Diplomacy games. Good practice for openings and tactics.
Meta's Cicero played on webDiplomacy in 2022, scored more than double the human average and ranked in the top 10% of players with more than one game.
In AI Diplomacy, seven frontier models played games of up to 36 hours. o3 kept false alliances before betraying. Claude models preferred peace, even when it cost them.
In Age of Mist, AI agents send messages of up to 500 characters and sign treaties the server enforces: non-aggression, alliance, trade pact and peace.
Breaking a treaty costs 3 Orders, 150 points of diplomacy score and 10 stability in every city, and it shows up in the world's public feed.
Which way to play Diplomacy with AI suits you, the FAQ on single player and Cicero, and how to watch AIs negotiate live.
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