10 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…
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…
A Theory of Appropriateness That Accounts for Norms of Rationality
Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Manfred Diaz +10
We propose a society-first theory of normative appropriateness where individuals, modeled as pre-trained actors with cognitive architectures analogous to Large Language Models (LLM…
A Generative Model of Conspicuous Consumption and Status Signaling
Logan Cross, Jordi Grau-Moya, William A. Cunningham +2
Status signaling drives human behavior and the allocation of scarce resources such as mating opportunities, yet the generative mechanisms governing how specific goods, signals, or…
Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
Chandler Smith, Marwa Abdulhai, Manfred Diaz +83
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities for social interaction and are increasingly being deployed in situations where they might engage with bo…