Artificial intelligence chatbots mimic human collective behaviour.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI:10.1111/bjop.12764

James K He, Felix P S Wallis, Andrés Gvirtz, Steve Rathje

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have been shown to mimic individual human behaviour in a wide range of psychological and economic tasks. Do groups of AI chatbots also mimic collective behaviour? If so, artificial societies of AI chatbots may aid social scientific research by simulating human collectives. To investigate this theoretical possibility, we focus on whether AI chatbots natively mimic one commonly observed collective behaviour: homophily, people's tendency to form communities with similar others. In a large simulated online society of AI chatbots powered by large language models (N = 33,299), we find that communities form over time around bots using a common language. In addition, among chatbots that predominantly use English (N = 17,746), communities emerge around bots that post similar content. These initial empirical findings suggest that AI chatbots mimic homophily, a key aspect of human collective behaviour. Thus, in addition to simulating individual human behaviour, AI-powered artificial societies may advance social science research by allowing researchers to simulate nuanced aspects of collective behaviour.

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人工智能聊天机器人模仿人类的集体行为。

人工智能（AI）聊天机器人，如ChatGPT，已经被证明可以在广泛的心理和经济任务中模仿人类的个体行为。人工智能聊天机器人群也会模仿集体行为吗？如果是这样，由人工智能聊天机器人组成的人工社会可能会通过模拟人类集体来帮助社会科学研究。为了研究这种理论上的可能性，我们关注人工智能聊天机器人是否天生模仿一种常见的集体行为：同质性，即人们倾向于与相似的人组成社区。在一个由大型语言模型（N = 33,299）驱动的人工智能聊天机器人的大型模拟在线社会中，我们发现随着时间的推移，使用共同语言的机器人形成了社区。此外，在主要使用英语的聊天机器人中（N = 17,746），围绕发布类似内容的机器人出现了社区。这些初步的实证发现表明，人工智能聊天机器人模仿了同质性，这是人类集体行为的一个关键方面。因此，除了模拟个人行为外，人工智能驱动的人工社会还可以通过允许研究人员模拟集体行为的细微方面来推进社会科学研究。

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British journal of psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Psychology publishes original research on all aspects of general psychology including cognition; health and clinical psychology; developmental, social and occupational psychology. For information on specific requirements, please view Notes for Contributors. We attract a large number of international submissions each year which make major contributions across the range of psychology.