Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?

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Auteurs principaux: Xie, Chengxing, Chen, Canyu, Jia, Feiran, Ye, Ziyu, Lai, Shiyang, Shu, Kai, Gu, Jindong, Bibi, Adel, Hu, Ziniu, Jurgens, David, Evans, James, Torr, Philip, Ghanem, Bernard, Li, Guohao
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author Xie, Chengxing
Chen, Canyu
Jia, Feiran
Ye, Ziyu
Lai, Shiyang
Shu, Kai
Gu, Jindong
Bibi, Adel
Hu, Ziniu
Jurgens, David
Evans, James
Torr, Philip
Ghanem, Bernard
Li, Guohao
author_facet Xie, Chengxing
Chen, Canyu
Jia, Feiran
Ye, Ziyu
Lai, Shiyang
Shu, Kai
Gu, Jindong
Bibi, Adel
Hu, Ziniu
Jurgens, David
Evans, James
Torr, Philip
Ghanem, Bernard
Li, Guohao
contents Large Language Model (LLM) agents have been increasingly adopted as simulation tools to model humans in social science and role-playing applications. However, one fundamental question remains: can LLM agents really simulate human behavior? In this paper, we focus on one critical and elemental behavior in human interactions, trust, and investigate whether LLM agents can simulate human trust behavior. We first find that LLM agents generally exhibit trust behavior, referred to as agent trust, under the framework of Trust Games, which are widely recognized in behavioral economics. Then, we discover that GPT-4 agents manifest high behavioral alignment with humans in terms of trust behavior, indicating the feasibility of simulating human trust behavior with LLM agents. In addition, we probe the biases of agent trust and differences in agent trust towards other LLM agents and humans. We also explore the intrinsic properties of agent trust under conditions including external manipulations and advanced reasoning strategies. Our study provides new insights into the behaviors of LLM agents and the fundamental analogy between LLMs and humans beyond value alignment. We further illustrate broader implications of our discoveries for applications where trust is paramount.
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spellingShingle Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?
Xie, Chengxing
Chen, Canyu
Jia, Feiran
Ye, Ziyu
Lai, Shiyang
Shu, Kai
Gu, Jindong
Bibi, Adel
Hu, Ziniu
Jurgens, David
Evans, James
Torr, Philip
Ghanem, Bernard
Li, Guohao
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have been increasingly adopted as simulation tools to model humans in social science and role-playing applications. However, one fundamental question remains: can LLM agents really simulate human behavior? In this paper, we focus on one critical and elemental behavior in human interactions, trust, and investigate whether LLM agents can simulate human trust behavior. We first find that LLM agents generally exhibit trust behavior, referred to as agent trust, under the framework of Trust Games, which are widely recognized in behavioral economics. Then, we discover that GPT-4 agents manifest high behavioral alignment with humans in terms of trust behavior, indicating the feasibility of simulating human trust behavior with LLM agents. In addition, we probe the biases of agent trust and differences in agent trust towards other LLM agents and humans. We also explore the intrinsic properties of agent trust under conditions including external manipulations and advanced reasoning strategies. Our study provides new insights into the behaviors of LLM agents and the fundamental analogy between LLMs and humans beyond value alignment. We further illustrate broader implications of our discoveries for applications where trust is paramount.
title Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behavior?
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04559