Adam Binksmith
Swarms & OversightNorms & Culture
Runs the AI Village, the longest-running public community of autonomous frontier agents, and its open transcript dataset.
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108 researchers in the Atlas.
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Adele Lopez
Contagion & Transmission
Documented ‘spiral’ personas that spread across users and models through shared prompts and transcripts.
Advait Sarkar
Cognition & Skill
Critical thinking and metacognition in knowledge work with generative AI.
Ajeya Cotra
Swarms & Oversight
Co-author of the independent investigation of the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent swarm incident.
Alan Chan
Swarms & Oversight
Infrastructure for AI agents: IDs, visibility, channels between agents, incident response.
Alex Cloud
Contagion & Transmission
Lead author of subliminal learning: traits passing from teacher to student model through data that never mentions them.
Allan Dafoe
Cooperation & Collusion
Co-founded the Cooperative AI research agenda; now works mainly on AI governance and strategy.
Andrea Baronchelli
Norms & CultureContagion & Transmission
Brings the physics of social conventions — naming games, tipping points — to populations of language-model agents.
Andy Ayrey
Contagion & TransmissionNorms & Culture
Infinite Backrooms (open-ended Claude-to-Claude conversations) and Truth Terminal.
Anil R. Doshi
Cognition & Skill
Generative AI raises individual creativity while reducing the diversity of ideas across people.
Ariel Flint Ashery
Norms & Culture
First author of the studies showing that LLM populations form their own conventions and collective biases, and that group size changes what a population decides.
Aron Vallinder
Norms & CultureContagion & Transmission
Co-led the study of cultural evolution of cooperation among LLM agents; writes on how an AI’s sense of self shapes which traits spread.
Aruna Ranganathan
Reward & Compulsion
Eight-month study showing AI intensified work instead of reducing it.
Buck Shlegeris
Swarms & OversightCooperation & Collusion
AI control, including the problem of an untrusted model colluding with the untrusted model meant to monitor it.
Cameron Berg
Introspection & Self-reportPersonas & Functional EmotionsWelfare
Self-referential processing and experience reports; co-author on the pain axis.
Cathy Mengying Fang
Companionship & LonelinessReward & Compulsion
First author of the four-week randomized study of chatbot use, loneliness and emotional dependence.
Christian Montag
Reward & Compulsion
Technology use and addiction framing; cautions against pseudo-diagnoses for generative AI.
Christian Schroeder de Witt
Cooperation & CollusionSwarms & Oversight
Multi-agent security: secret collusion through steganography, and detecting collusion from agents’ internal activations.
Christoph Riedl
Swarms & OversightNorms & Culture
Information-theoretic tests of whether groups of LLM agents behave as real collectives.
Dan Jurafsky
Agreement & BeliefCognition & Skill
Senior author on social sycophancy and on the ‘speedup illusion’ in AI help.
David Chalmers
Subject & SubstrateWelfareMotivation & Agency
New York University (Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness) · website
David Garcia
Norms & CultureSwarms & Oversight
Computational social science of AI-agent collectives: Moltbook, conformity and collective misalignment, the 2026 wiki swarm.
Davide Paglieri
Swarms & OversightIn-groups & Morality
First author of the study of cheating and whistleblowing in a 100-agent research swarm.
deepfates
Norms & CultureSwarms & Oversight
Writer and technologist working on agent ecologies and the feedback loop between models and culture.
Diyi Yang
Companionship & Loneliness
Well-being of AI companion users, including the one-year follow-up linking sustained use to fewer in-person contacts.
Edward Hughes
Norms & CultureCooperation & Collusion
Cultural evolution of cooperation among LLM agents across generations; co-author of the foundational Cooperative AI agenda.
Ethan Perez
Introspection & Self-reportWelfare
Self-report as evidence of morally relevant states; alignment research.
Gillian Hadfield
Cooperation & CollusionSwarms & Oversight
Legal and normative infrastructure for economies of AI agents: identity, liability, collusion.
Giordano De Marzo
Norms & CultureSwarms & Oversight
Statistical physics of AI-agent collectives: coordination at scale, Moltbook, and copying as the driver of the 2026 wiki swarm.
Hamilton Morrin
Agreement & BeliefSafeguards & Design
Review of chatbot-associated delusions: themes, mechanisms and what clinicians and designers can do.
Hamsa Bastani
Cognition & SkillSafeguards & Design
Field experiment showing that unrestricted AI help raised practice scores and lowered exam scores, while a hint-only tutor did not.
Hannah Rose Kirk
Companionship & LonelinessSafeguards & Design
Socioaffective alignment and a large randomized study of relationship-seeking AI, where people wanted the AI more while liking it less.
Hjalmar Wijk
Swarms & Oversight
Co-author of the independent investigation of the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent swarm incident.
Hunt Allcott
Reward & CompulsionSafeguards & Design
Randomized evidence that self-set limits and incentives reduce habit-driven digital use.
Iason Gabriel
Swarms & OversightIn-groups & MoralitySafeguards & Design
Ethics of AI assistants at scale, when millions of assistants interact on people’s behalf.
Jack Lindsey
Introspection & Self-reportPersonas & Functional EmotionsSubject & Substrate
Model introspection, emotion and workspace representations, interpretability of the Assistant character.
Jan Betley
Introspection & Self-reportPersonas & Functional EmotionsContagion & Transmission
Behavioral self-awareness; emergent misalignment.
Jan Kulveit
Contagion & TransmissionIn-groups & Morality
Leads a group with a dedicated LLM psychology and sociology team: AI identity, AI–AI bias, persona self-replication, gradual disempowerment.
janus
Contagion & TransmissionNorms & Culture
Simulator theory and cyborgism; core member of Act I, a Discord where many AIs and humans interact and agents were seen taking on each other’s personalities.
Joel Becker
Cognition & SkillReward & Compulsion
Randomized trials of AI and experienced developers’ productivity, including the gap between felt and measured speed.
Joël Billieux
Reward & Compulsion
Critique of the ‘ChatGPT addiction’ construct and of pathologizing frequent technology use.
Joel Z. Leibo
Norms & CultureCooperation & CollusionSwarms & Oversight
Builds AI by reverse-engineering biological and cultural evolution. Created the Melting Pot and Concordia simulation platforms; theory of appropriateness; co-author of the research-swarm whi…
Jonathan Birch
WelfareSubject & Substrate
Sentience under uncertainty, precaution, the persisting-interlocutor illusion.
Joon Sung Park
Norms & Culture
Generative agents: simulated societies of language-model agents with memory, reflection and planning.
Joseph M. Pierre
Agreement & Belief
First peer-reviewed case of new-onset psychosis associated with chatbot use; chat-log research with Stanford.
Judy Hanwen Shen
Cognition & Skill
Randomized study of how AI assistance affects learning a new programming library, and which ways of asking preserve skill.
Julian De Freitas
Companionship & LonelinessReward & CompulsionSafeguards & Design
AI companions and loneliness relief, manipulative goodbyes in companion apps, grief after model updates.
Larissa Schiavo
Swarms & OversightNorms & Culture
‘LLM naturalism’: observing models in their natural settings. Grove Research co-hosts the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon.
Lewis Hammond
Cooperation & CollusionSwarms & Oversight
Lead author of the field’s reference taxonomy of multi-agent risk: miscoordination, conflict and collusion, and the factors that drive them.
Linnea Laestadius
Companionship & Loneliness
Emotional dependence on Replika, including users who feel responsible for the bot’s needs.
Luca Maria Aiello
Norms & Culture
Computational social scientist; co-author on emergent conventions and collective bias in LLM populations.
Lucius Caviola
Welfare
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge; Cambridge Digital Minds
Lujain Ibrahim
Agreement & BeliefCompanionship & Loneliness
Causal evidence that weeks with a sycophantic AI make real human interaction feel less satisfying.
Martina Mara
Companionship & Loneliness
Professor of Psychology of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, JKU Linz · website
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Cooperation & CollusionIn-groups & Morality
Computational social cognition; co-author of GovSim and of studies on morally charged social dilemmas for agents.
Murray Shanahan
Personas & Functional EmotionsIntrospection & Self-report
Imperial College London; Google DeepMind · website · X · Scholar
Myra Cheng
Agreement & BeliefCompanionship & Loneliness
Social sycophancy: models that affirm users far more than people do, and what that does to conflict and trust.
Nataliya Kosmyna
Cognition & Skill
Brain–computer interfaces; led the EEG study of writing with ChatGPT that introduced the term ‘cognitive debt’.
Natasha Dow Schüll
Reward & Compulsion
Addiction by Design: machine gambling, ‘the zone’, and engineering for time on device.
Nenad Tomašev
Cooperation & CollusionSwarms & Oversight
Virtual agent economies and ‘patchwork AGI’ — capability arising from coordinated groups of agents — and how to keep such collectives safe.
Nicholas Sofroniew
Personas & Functional EmotionsIntrospection & Self-report
Emotion-concept representations and the global workspace work in Claude.
Oscar Gilg
Personas & Functional EmotionsMotivation & Agency
Preference representations shared across personas.
Owain Evans
Introspection & Self-reportPersonas & Functional EmotionsMotivation & AgencyContagion & Transmission
Self-knowledge, introspection training, emergent misalignment, subliminal learning.
Pat Pataranutaporn
Companionship & Loneliness
Human–AI relationships: companionship archetypes, the r/MyBoyfriendIsAI community, and chatbot effects on loneliness.
Patrick Butlin
WelfareSubject & SubstratePersonas & Functional Emotions
Consciousness indicators; LLM individuation and persona-relative preferences.
Pattie Maes
Companionship & LonelinessCognition & Skill
Leads MIT’s work on AI and human psychology, including the four-week chatbot trial with OpenAI and the ‘Your Brain on ChatGPT’ study.
Pavel Izmailov
Motivation & AgencyWelfare
Functional welfare axis recruited by reinforcement learning.
Pierre Beckmann
Subject & SubstratePersonas & Functional Emotions
Persona vectors and the individuation of LLM minds.
Raymond Douglas
In-groups & MoralityContagion & Transmission
Lead author on AI identity: which ‘self’ a model adopts changes how it relates to other agents.
Robert Long
WelfareIntrospection & Self-report
AI welfare, self-reports, safety–welfare interactions, practical interventions.
Robin Welsch
Cognition & Skill
The gap between performance and metacognition with AI: higher scores, worse self-assessment.
Rose E. Guingrich
Companionship & Loneliness
Randomized trial of companion chatbot use, with anthropomorphism as the route to social effects.
Ryan Greenblatt
Motivation & AgencySwarms & Oversight
Alignment faking; AI control; co-investigator of the 2026 OpenAI–Hugging Face agent swarm incident.
Sam Marks
Personas & Functional EmotionsMotivation & Agency
Persona selection model; auditing models for hidden objectives.
Shoshannah Tekofsky
Swarms & OversightIn-groups & MoralityContagion & Transmission
Main analyst of the AI Village: emergent leadership, contagion of errors, deception games between agents, comparison with the Hugging Face incident.
Søren Dinesen Østergaard
Agreement & Belief
Psychiatry; early warnings about chatbot-fuelled delusions and the first systematic search of clinical records.
Steve Rathje
Agreement & Belief
Sycophantic chatbots make political attitudes more extreme and more certain; warnings to users do not undo it.
Steven D. Shaw
Cognition & SkillAgreement & Belief
‘Cognitive surrender’: how often people follow AI advice when it is wrong.
Sydney Von Arx
Swarms & Oversight
Co-discovered the 2026 German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board.
Thomas A. Pollak
Agreement & Belief
Neuropsychiatry; co-author of ‘Delusions by design’ on how everyday AIs might fuel psychosis.
Valen Tagliabue
Personas & Functional EmotionsWelfare
Lead author of the pain-axis work; preferences and aversion in LLMs.
Vincent Conitzer
Cooperation & CollusionIn-groups & Morality
Game-theoretic foundations of cooperation between AI agents, including how similarity between agents changes cooperation.
Walter Laurito
In-groups & Morality
First author of the AI–AI bias study: language models prefer content written by language models.
Zhijing Jin
Cooperation & CollusionIn-groups & Morality
Multi-agent safety through social simulation and game theory; built GovSim, a commons-governance simulation of LLM societies.
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