4 papers
Deception and Communication in Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems: An Experimental Study with Among Us
Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger
As large language models are deployed as autonomous agents, their capacity for strategic deception raises core questions for coordination, reliability, and safety in multi-goal, mu…
Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioner…
The Power of Framing: How News Headlines Guide Search Behavior
Amrit Poudel, Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger
Search engines play a central role in how people gather information, but subtle cues like headline framing may influence not only what users believe but also how they search. While…
VirtLab: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study tea…