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AI Agents are Vulnerable to Radicalization
Ozgur Can Seckin, Shalmoli Ghosh, Alessandro Flammini +3
Large language models (LLMs) can influence people's beliefs, yet little is known about whether and how they can manipulate each other. To investigate this, we simulate conversation…
Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Emergence of Stereotypes and Affective Polarization from Belief Network Dynamics
Ozgur Can Seckin, Rachith Aiyappa, Madalina Vlasceanu +3
Our belief systems are shaped by social processes, such as observations and influence, and by cognitive processes, such as the drive for internal coherence. These processes steer h…