How AI agents behave
with each other.
Conventions and culture, cooperation and collusion, what spreads between agents, how swarms organize, and how agents treat other AIs. Mapped from the research and the 2026 swarm incidents. Read the state of the field ↗
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Five ways into Sociology of AI
Questions can belong to more than one clusterNorms & Culture
How conventions, norms and culture form in populations of AI agents, and whether they accumulate.
Explore cluster 02Cooperation & Collusion
When agents work together, when they fail to, and when working together turns against the people they serve.
Explore cluster 03Contagion & Transmission
What passes from one AI to another — behaviors, errors, personas, hidden traits — and through which channels.
Explore cluster 04Swarms & Oversight
Collectives of agents in the wild: how swarms organize, what they aim at, and how humans can see and govern them.
Explore cluster 05In-groups & Morality
How agents treat other AIs: in-group loyalty, conformity, self-sacrifice, whistleblowing and moral judgment in groups.
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