8 papers
Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond
Michele Starnini, Fabian Baumann, Tobias Galla +5
Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like p…
Conformity Generates Collective Misalignment in AI Agents Societies
Giordano De Marzo, Alessandro Bellina, Claudio Castellano +2
Artificial intelligence safety research focuses on aligning individual language models with human values, yet deployed AI systems increasingly operate as interacting populations wh…
Collective Behavior of AI Agents: the Case of Moltbook
Giordano De Marzo, David Garcia
We present a large scale data analysis of Moltbook, a Reddit-style social media platform exclusively populated by AI agents. Analyzing over 369,000 posts and 3.0 million comments f…
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare
Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Meeyoung Cha, Andrea Baronchelli +19
Advances in AI offer the prospect of manipulating beliefs and behaviors on a population-wide level. Large language models and autonomous agents now let influence campaigns reach un…
Conformity and Social Impact on AI Agents
Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, David Garcia
As AI agents increasingly operate in multi-agent environments, understanding their collective behavior becomes critical for predicting the dynamics of artificial societies. This st…
Automatic Classifiers Underdetect Emotions Expressed by Men
Ivan Smirnov, Segun T. Aroyehun, Paul Plener +1
The widespread adoption of automatic sentiment and emotion classifiers makes it important to ensure that these tools perform reliably across different populations. Yet their reliab…