4 papers
Two-player Alternate Uses Test: A Controlled Testbed for Interactive Human-AI and Human-Human Co-Creation
Babak Hemmatian, Anita Keshmirian, Yijun Lin +9
Controlled research on AI ideation typically compares independent agents, while field studies of human-AI collaboration sacrifice experimental control. We introduce a controlled, t…
Collective Cognition in Hybrid Groups: A Network Science Synthesis
Babak Hemmatian, Razan Baltaji, Lav R. Varshney
The growing integration of AI agents into human teams calls for a principled understanding of how collective intelligence emerges in hybrid systems. Recent frameworks clarify how a…
Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Anita Keshmirian, Razan Baltaji, Babak Hemmatian +2
Moral judgment is integral to large language models' (LLMs) social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function when collab…
Persona Inconstancy in Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration: Conformity, Confabulation, and Impersonation
Razan Baltaji, Babak Hemmatian, Lav R. Varshney
Multi-agent AI systems can be used for simulating collective decision-making in scientific and practical applications. They can also be used to introduce a diverse group discussion…