Systems and methods for recognition of intent of a character are provided. The character is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character generated by an AI character model for interacting with users in the virtual environment or is controlled by a human user. An example method includes monitoring interactions between a plurality of characters in a virtual environment; recognizing, based on environmental parameters associated with the interactions, an intent of a character selected from the plurality of characters: selecting a plurality of possible behaviors for the character based on the intent; and triggering a behavior selected from the plurality of possible behaviors based on predetermined criteria.