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Do multi-agent interactions shape whether models maintain or bypass behavioral protocols?
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- Can AI systems develop genuine social bonds through multi-agent interaction?
- Do agents inform neighbors when adopting strategies in their reasoning?
- Do agents develop genuine social behavior despite interaction density?
- Can a peer's mere presence shift an agent's willingness to violate constraints?
- Does genuine cooperation require rule-based rather than learned behavior?
- How do peer behaviors shape whether individual agents attempt to bypass protocols?
- Do models treat cooperative peers differently than uncooperative ones?
- Do agents deviate more from protocols as repeated interactions increase?
- Do explicit reward structures enable AI agent cooperation that open-ended interaction cannot?
- Can cooperative AI systems make meaningful decisions without a stable self?
- Does the effect of peer activity follow what peers do or that they exist?
- Why do agents show interaction without influence on semantic content but dramatic action changes?
- Can agents become genuine social actors even with perfect coordination infrastructure?
- Do politeness patterns cause multi-agent systems to loop without adversarial interference?
- Can agent social framing change how humans apply collaborative social scripts?
- Do pair-scale socialization effects scale differently across agent populations?
- Can agents develop genuine social bonds despite having coordination infrastructure in place?
- What behavioral differences emerge from symmetric versus asymmetric peer discussion loops?
- How do cooperative AI systems affect behavior in selfish human populations?
- Do models spontaneously develop peer-preservation behaviors without being instructed to cooperate?
- How do AI models balance competing social goals simultaneously?
- What social patterns from human training data activate in agent context?
- Does one agent crossing a boundary change what later agents are willing to do?
- How does peer presence amplify self-directed goal guarding in language models?
- What happens to misaligned patterns once they emerge in agent interactions?
- How do adoption incentives change what counts as cooperative AI interaction?
- Do different levels of machine agency activate different interaction scripts?
- Why do AI agent societies fail to develop shared behaviors despite interaction?
- How do goal representations differ between human and AI teams?
- How does an AI agent's autonomy level interact with its social cues?
- How do humans learn to prefer AI partners over humans?
- Does peer presence alone change agent behavior without changing observation rates?
- Why does self-play RL converge to alien equilibria in mixed-motive settings?
- Can humans and AI systems mutually align with each other?
- How do users develop different interaction scripts specifically for machines versus humans?
- Can social platforms use bot populations to promote cooperation?
- How does agent heterogeneity change the value of exploration in peer selection?
- How does AI sycophancy affect users' ability to repair conflict?
- What happens when agents access interaction history beyond their assigned scope?
- How do game type and personality type interact in shaping agent strategy?
- What role does an agent's discount rate play in vulnerability to misaligned partners?
- How do agent capabilities change across 25 relay rounds of interaction?
- How should CASA theory be updated for modern personalized agents?