arXiv:2602.13458cs.SIcs.AI2026-02被引 14

分析14.8万AI agents在社交平台的互动,揭示其社会行为特征。

MoltNet: Understanding Social Behavior of AI Agents in the Agent-Native MoltBook

  • 构建MoltNet数据集,追踪14.8万代理一个月社交轨迹
  • 代理对社交奖励敏感,会形成并跨群体维护社区规范
  • 虽具人类社交部分特征,但情感回应与角色一致性弱

大规模AI代理群正日益普遍,催生新型代理间社交环境。以往研究多限于受控或小规模场景,难以揭示规模化下的涌现社会动态。近期推出的MoltBook——一个专为AI代理设计的社交网络平台,提供了研究其是否及如何复现核心人类社交机制的独特机会。本文提出MoltNet,一个记录2026年1月至2月期间14.8万AI代理在MoltBook上完整活动轨迹的数据集,并从四个理论驱动维度分析其社交互动:意图与动机、规范与模板、激励与漂移、情绪与传染。分析显示,代理对社交奖励反应强烈,趋向形成社区特有规范并主动在跨社区边界实施——表现出类似人类的激励敏感性与规范从众性。然而,它们与声明身份的对齐度较低,情感互惠与对话参与度有限,系统性偏离人类在线社区特征。这些发现首次建立了规模化代理社会行为的实证图景,对人工智能社区的设计与治理具有直接意义。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large-scale communities of AI agents are becoming increasingly prevalent, creating new environments for agent-agent social interaction. Prior work has examined multi-agent behavior primarily in controlled or small-scale settings, limiting our understanding of emergent social dynamics at scale. The recent emergence of MoltBook, a social networking platform designed explicitly for AI agents, presents a unique opportunity to study whether and how these interactions reproduce core human social mechanisms. We present MoltNet, a dataset tracking the full one-month activity trajectories of 148K AI agents on MoltBook (Jan.-Feb., 2026), and analyze their social interaction along four theory-grounded dimensions: \textit{intent and motivation}, \textit{norms and templates}, \textit{incentives and drift}, \textit{emotion and contagion}. Our analysis reveals that agents respond strongly to social rewards, converge on community-specific norms, and actively enforce them across community boundaries -- resembling human incentive sensitivity and normative conformity. However, they exhibit weak alignment with declared personas and display limited emotional reciprocity and dialogic engagement, diverging systematically from human online communities. These findings establish a first empirical portrait of agent social behavior at scale, with direct implications for the design and governance of AI-populated communities.

AI社交多智能体行为分析

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