Conversational AI is increasingly positioned as a teammate rather than a tool, yet we know little about how its presence reshapes communication among the humans on the team. We examined sociocognitive communication dynamics in team decision-making using Group Communication Analysis (GCA), team surveys, and lexical analyses of team discourse.
The paper examines how conversational AI, specifically ChatGPT, displays aspects of cooperative dialogue such as morality, politeness, and alignment compared to human-human conversations. Using over 26,000 multi‑turn dialogues and mixed‑effects modeling, the authors find that AI mimics the surface features of cooperation—like warmth and hedging—yet lacks the underlying social architecture that drives mutual adaptation. Key findings include a dissociation between AI’s moral output and human negotiation, a decline in linguistic convergence, and a reversal of typical human accommodation mechanisms when interacting with AI.
By Marina Mitiaeva, Lu Xiao
arXiv:2607. 12180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI teammate's design properties (personality, communication style, when it speaks) can shape a team's trust, coordination, and decisions.
By Mohammad Amin Samadi, Pedro Martins De Bastos, Jaeyoon Choi, Spencer JaQuay, Seehee Park, Nia Nixon
The study investigates how large language model (LLM) agents influence consensus formation in mixed human‑AI groups during a collaborative description game. Three regimes emerge: low agent proportions lead to human‑led consensus, intermediate proportions disrupt convergence, and high proportions produce strong, agent‑led consensus. The resulting consensus differs in semantic grounding and communicative form, with human‑led consensus being concrete and holistic, and agent‑led consensus being abstract and geometrically segmented.
By Lin Chen, Ziyi Liu, Xia Hu, Yong Li
arXiv:2607. 02198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-AI teaming has received increasing attention in the literature.
By Nathan Hughes, Ibrahim Habli
arXiv:2606. 00182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-AI collaboration is considered the most promising way to incorporate AI in the workplace.
By Kuntal Ghosh, Marc Hassenzahl, Shadan Sadeghian