Systems and methods for providing contextually oriented behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) characters are provided. An example method includes receiving a description of a plurality of scenes associated with an AI environment, where the description includes a list of AI objects and a list of AI character models present in a scene of the plurality of scenes; generating, based on the description, a plurality of AI scene models corresponding to the plurality of scenes, where the plurality of AI scene models include an AI scene model corresponding to the scene; and adjusting, based on parameters of the scene, behavioral characteristics of an AI character model of the list of AI character models.