It might not be clear in my description, but this is an official expansion to the board game. It's an automa so they follow a set of rules (as described on the rule sheet) but ultimately rely on the players to play "for" the automa

Playing with Automa makes power grid fantastic with 2 players since it gives another player to have to worry about.

I added this to the game and they did not do anything. I thought this was supposed to act as an AI for the game in case you wanted to go against other people but couldn't?