{
  "id": 5929,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11721v2",
  "title": "Evaluating Cooperation in LLM Social Groups through Elected Leadership",
  "summary": "Governing common-pool resources requires agents to develop enduring strategies through cooperation and self-governance to avoid collective failure. While foundation models have shown potential for cooperation in these settings, existing multi-agent research provides little insight into whether structured leadership and election mechanisms can improve collective decision making. The lack of such a critical organizational feature ubiquitous in human society presents a significant shortcoming of th",
  "authors": "Ryan Faulkner, Anushka Deshpande, David Guzman Piedrahita, Joel Z. Leibo, Zhijing Jin",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,misinformation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-13T16:57:11.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:06.469Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5929",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11721v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}