arXiv AI By Tristan Shah, Ilya Nemenman, Daniel Polani, Stas Tiomkin

Multi-Agent Empowerment and Emergence of Complex Behavior in Groups

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arXiv AI
Jul 8

When Assisting One Disempowers Another

arXiv:2511. 04177v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personal AI agents are increasingly deployed in shared environments, where their actions affect not just the primary user they are assisting, but bystanders who never consented to being affected by the system.

By Claire Yang, Claire Jie Zhang, Maya Cakmak, Max Kleiman-Weiner
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Behavior is Not Enough: A Mechanism-Based Evaluation of Social Norm Emergence in LLM Societies

The paper argues that observing only behavior is insufficient to identify social norms in large language model (LLM) societies. It introduces an evaluation framework that also measures agents’ reported empirical and normative expectations, revealing that expectation elicitation boosts cooperation, social learning stabilizes behavior, and social selection identifies cooperators but offers limited reinforcement. The study shows that similar cooperative outcomes can stem from distinct underlying mechanisms and that expectations can be used to attribute each mechanism’s contribution.

By Rasika Muralidharan, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An