16:45 - 18:15
Location: LI-2407
Chair/s:
Ethan Busby
Discussant/s:
David Hagmann
Elif Erisen - Stakes, Prospects, and Policy Domain: Citizens' Willingness to Delegate Political Decisions to Artificial Intelligence
Ethan Busby - Productive Disagreement as a Skill: AI-Supported Training for Political Conversations
Ma Runyi - Knoweia as a Learning Dialogue Terminal: A Multi-Agent AI System for Structured Learning in Computational Social Science
Zengchang Qin - Investigating Self-View Convergence in LLM Agents and Human-AI Interaction
Zhexi LIU - Facing the "Face": An LLM-Assisted Study on the Alignment of Political Leader Traits
Submission 66
Investigating Self-View Convergence in LLM Agents and Human-AI Interaction
Panel 3-LI-2407-02
Presented by: Zengchang Qin
Zengchang Qin
Centre for AI Research (CAIR) and School of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam
The human self-concept is a dynamic construct shaped through social interaction—a process known as "inter-self alignment." As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as social actors rather than mere tools, understanding their capacity to influence and undergo self-view convergence is critical. This research investigates whether the mechanisms of social alignment observed in human-human dialogue extend to autonomous AI agents and mixed groups populated with real human and AI agents. The study employed instruction-tuned Gemma agents in a four-participant round-robin protocol to test convergence across two distinct domains: a perceptual-visual task and a social self-revelatory task. Findings suggest that interaction with AI agents can measurably influence human self-perception in a manner analogous to human-human interaction.