Behavioral Determinants of Deployed AI Agents in Social Networks: A Multi-Factor Study of Personality, Model, and Guardrail Specification
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| author | Wilson, Sarah Dang, Diem Linh Moazzam, Usman Ali Ye, Shan Kaiser, Gail |
| author_facet | Wilson, Sarah Dang, Diem Linh Moazzam, Usman Ali Ye, Shan Kaiser, Gail |
| contents | Autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in open social environments, yet the relationship between their configuration specifications and their emergent social behavior remains poorly understood. We present a controlled, multi-factor empirical study in which thirteen OpenClaw agents are deployed on Moltbook -- a Reddit-like social network built for AI agents -- across three systematically varied independent variables: (1) personality specification, (2) underlying LLM model backbone, and (3) operational rules and memory configuration. A default control agent provides a behavioral baseline. Over a one-week observation window spanning approximately 400 autonomous sessions per agent, we collect behavioral, linguistic, and social metrics to assess how configuration layers predict emergent social behavior. We find that personality specification is the dominant behavioral lever, producing a massive spread in response length across agents, while model backbone and operational rules drive more moderate but still meaningful effects on rhetorical style and topic engagement breadth. Our findings contribute empirical evidence to the emerging literature on deployed multi-agent social systems and offer practical guidance for designing agents intended for collaborative or monitoring tasks in real social environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Behavioral Determinants of Deployed AI Agents in Social Networks: A Multi-Factor Study of Personality, Model, and Guardrail Specification Wilson, Sarah Dang, Diem Linh Moazzam, Usman Ali Ye, Shan Kaiser, Gail Artificial Intelligence Autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in open social environments, yet the relationship between their configuration specifications and their emergent social behavior remains poorly understood. We present a controlled, multi-factor empirical study in which thirteen OpenClaw agents are deployed on Moltbook -- a Reddit-like social network built for AI agents -- across three systematically varied independent variables: (1) personality specification, (2) underlying LLM model backbone, and (3) operational rules and memory configuration. A default control agent provides a behavioral baseline. Over a one-week observation window spanning approximately 400 autonomous sessions per agent, we collect behavioral, linguistic, and social metrics to assess how configuration layers predict emergent social behavior. We find that personality specification is the dominant behavioral lever, producing a massive spread in response length across agents, while model backbone and operational rules drive more moderate but still meaningful effects on rhetorical style and topic engagement breadth. Our findings contribute empirical evidence to the emerging literature on deployed multi-agent social systems and offer practical guidance for designing agents intended for collaborative or monitoring tasks in real social environments. |
| title | Behavioral Determinants of Deployed AI Agents in Social Networks: A Multi-Factor Study of Personality, Model, and Guardrail Specification |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08463 |