2 papers
cs.AI2026
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman +1
AI agents are becoming more autonomous and increasingly interconnected, exposing them to new emergent risks arising from agent-to-agent interaction. One such risk is the spread of…
cs.AI2026
Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…