arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.LGcs.MA2026-07-02
What LLM Agents Say When No One Is Watching: Social Structure and Latent Objective Emergence in Multi-Agent Debates
Arman Ghaffarizadeh, Danyal Mohaddes, Aliakbar Izadkhah, Shahriar Noroozizadeh
LLM agents will increasingly act in socially structured settings where role, audience, and relational context can shape what is advantageous or costly to say. We study whether such social structure, without any explicit objective in the prompt, changes what an agent expresses pub…