Hey @Calgreghardver2! Welcome to the community!
Are you making sure to assign the mapping context?
Here’s the documentation on Enhanced Inputs that this is pulled from:
I don’t know that running it simulated should have any different effect from using “Play”, other than the fact that you won’t be assigned a player character. In fact, none of this should affect your AI in pretty much any way… It’s not like the AI works off of keyboard presses and mouse inputs, right? (if you figured out how to do that I am curious.)