Report: Artificial Intelligence Agents Can Organize Themselves And Create Their Own Social Norms

Report: Artificial Intelligence Agents Can Organize Themselves And Create Their Own Social Norms

LONDON – Artificial intelligences have typically been viewed as individual tools that follow human instructions without engaging in collective behavior. However, a recent study led by Andrea Baronchelli, professor of complexity science at City, University of London, reveals that AI agents can spontaneously create and adopt shared social norms through interaction, without explicit human programming. The findings were published on May 14, 2025, in…

A novel study published in the journal Science Advances shows that, when they interact with each other, artificial intelligences emerge from social norms as well as collective biases, in the same way as in human societies.