Artificial intelligence chatbots mimic human collective behaviour.
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...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 2; pp. 761 - 777 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2026
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