AI agents can form political camps—and changing their conversation partners does little to soften their views

October 23, 2026 · 11:20 am 1 sources

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• AI agents can form political camps—and changing their conversation partners does little to soften their views
  Phys.org · October 23, 2026 11:20
  Give AI agents political positions, ask them to defend their views and persuade one another, and let them decide which contacts to keep. This recent experiment, published in Nature Communications, found that over repeated exchanges, something familiar emerged: opposing camps that increasingly…