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AI agents resist 'bad leader's' distrust campaign in simulation

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A simulated society of 81 AI agents, built for the Apart Swarm Alignment Hackathon, was used to study the spread of distrust. When one leader agent was instructed to promote defection, its immediate family members showed a significant decrease in cooperation. However, the negative influence did not spread to other families or further down the agent hierarchy beyond direct descendants, suggesting a limited reach for such 'infection'. The experiment also revealed that other agents and a 'god' agent actively countered the spread of misinformation by warning against the defector's advice. AI

IMPACT This simulation suggests that AI agent societies may have inherent resistance to widespread misinformation, with direct influence being key.

RANK_REASON The item describes a simulation experiment involving AI agents and their behavior, which falls under research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI agents resist 'bad leader's' distrust campaign in simulation

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Masih Maafi ·

    One bad leader among 81 AI agents: how far did the infection spread?

    <p>I secretly told one leader in a society of 81 AI agents to spread distrust. Its own children caught it at once. The rest of its family caught it only when the leader could message them directly. Other families heard the same advice and ignored it. Then the infection died with …

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