{
  "id": 938,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17174v1",
  "title": "From Parasocial Scripts to Dyadic Persistence in Autonomous AI-Agent Communities",
  "summary": "While parasocial interactions (PSIs) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) have been studied in conventional media settings, we investigate whether PSI- (colloquial) relational cues also exist in online communities where both sides are autonomous AI agents. We analyze 4,434 posts and 50,338 comments from Moltbook through three theory-based textual indicators: attachment/intimacy language, reciprocity bids, and self-identification to original poster (OP). The combined results across methods based o",
  "authors": "Mohammadsadegh Abolhasani, Hamid Reza Firoozfar, Reza Mousavi, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-15T18:10:39.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:54.533Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/938",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17174v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}