Persuasion and Anti-social Ability of LLMs

studies the interaction patterns of LLMs in a multi-agent setting with social hierarchy; the study was done in a specific setting involving a guard and a prisoner who seeks additional yard time or escaping from prison; finds that in the multi-agent setting where power dynamics are involved, the LLMs fail to have a conversation; they also report that agents' personas are critical in driving the behaviors of the agents. In addition, and without explicit prompting, simply assigning agents' roles lead to anti-social behavior.