[Opinion] Artificial intelligence agents spontaneously conform to the majority opinion

Artificial intelligence agents spontaneously conform to the majority opinion

Advanced artificial intelligence programs can spontaneously form a consensus by adopting the popular opinion, according to research published in the journal Science Advances. But two recent follow-up preprints suggest this same mechanism can cause models to conform to incorrect answers and adopt unsafe values. The research provides evidence that artificial intelligence agents self-organize in predictable ways without outside prompting. Human suc…