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[Shadowlord]

Sim earth.
in theory you are expected to manage a planet but you can ignore everything and just leave it to do its thing.

Load 1990 Earth scenario. Let it run without interference (or turn up fossil fuel use). Human use of fossil fuels eventually results in a runaway greenhouse effect, boiling off the oceans, killing all life on Earth permanently. Or at least that's what would happen when I loaded that scenario in the PC version, and let it run without turning fossil fuels way down.

(SimEarth came out in 1990, if you didn't know)

[Neonivek]

Well not "permanently" you would be surprised what hellish nightmares some species can live in.

I still remember my desert planet that had a decent lizard population.

[Crashmaster]

I have never played it (yet) and it doesn't sound like exactly what you want but you might want to take a look at AI War: Fleet Command.

There's a thread here;

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=41107.0

[Retropunch]

Distant worlds can be left to be completely automated. A friend of mine puts it on super high automation and basically only makes choices on big decisions (going to war/peace mainly). You can interfere as much as you want, but as the automation works exactly like the AI, you can still win just with automation. It does get very messy towards the end (with tons of fleets all attacking/getting attacked) so eventually you HAVE to turn on automation anyway. Very pricey though and certainly not for everyone.

AI War isn't really automated in the same way - it's just a massive scale RTS (although you can set things buildings to automatically churn out and send units, so I guess it's kinda automated).

There are a few older dos games with what you're looking for. King of Dragon pass is kinda like what you want, and there are a few others like it.