{
  "id": 15848,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02613",
  "title": "Exploring Silicon-Based Societies: An Early Study of the Moltbook Agent Community",
  "summary": "arXiv:2602.02613v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid emergence of autonomous large language model agents has given rise to persistent, large-scale agent ecosystems whose collective behavior cannot be adequately understood through anecdotal observation or small-scale simulation. This paper introduces data-driven silicon sociology as a systematic empirical framework for studying social structure formation among interacting artificial agents. We present a pioneering large-scale data",
  "authors": "Yu-Zheng Lin, Bono Po-Jen Shih, Hsuan-Ying Alessandra Chien, Shalaka Satam, Jesus Horacio Pacheco, Naima Kaabouch, Sicong Shao, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-04T05:10:21.797Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15848",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02613",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}