27 papers
Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change
Jayd Matyas, William A. Cunningham, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets +3
Attitude change - the process by which individuals revise their evaluative stances - has been explained by a set of influential but competing verbal theories. These accounts often…
Evaluating Collective Behaviour of Hundreds of LLM Agents
Richard Willis, Jianing Zhao, Yali Du +1
LLM-powered AI assistants acting on behalf of users can produce poor collective outcomes at scale. We introduce a framework for evaluating their emergent behaviour in social dilemm…
From AGI to ASI
Tim Genewein, Matija Franklin, Alexander Lerchner +11
Over the last decade, building human-level artificial general intelligence has moved from far-fetched speculation to being a concrete next-decade target for many of the largest AI…
Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative
Rakshit S Trivedi, Natasha Jaques, Logan Cross +2
AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence. The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous a…
Persona Generators: Generating Diverse Synthetic Personas for Arbitrary Contexts
Davide Paglieri, Logan Cross, William A. Cunningham +2
Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive o…
Evaluating Cooperation in LLM Social Groups through Elected Leadership
Ryan Faulkner, Anushka Deshpande, David Guzman Piedrahita +2
Governing common-pool resources requires agents to develop enduring strategies through cooperation and self-governance to avoid collective failure. While foundation models have sho…