{
  "id": 18004,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09574v1",
  "title": "The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games",
  "summary": "LLMs are rapidly embedding themselves into daily life: drafting our emails, managing our schedules, and making decisions on our behalf. As they move from individual tools to participants in multi-agent organizations, an important question arises: do they reproduce the governance failures like free-riding, corruption, and entrenched leadership that plague human institutions? We introduce the Hierarchical Game (HG), a public goods game extended with managerial authority, democratic elections, and",
  "authors": "Fatemeh Seyedin, Adrian Weller, Jinhyuk Yun, Mahmoudreza Babaei",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T13:08:52.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18004",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09574v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}