physics.soc-ph · 2026-09-28 · No. 127

Physics and Society, 2026-09-28.

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    Warned alike, AI agents avoid the less-crowded road while people take it

    Takahiro Ezaki, Naoto Imura, Katsuhiro Nishinari

    physics.soc-ph · cs.AI

    AI agents built on a few shared models increasingly act for many people. A shared forecast about others can align their choices and change how scarce capacity is allocated. We tested this feedback in a two-road congestion game. Adding one sentence warning that others might follow a routing tip made populations of 50 GPT agents crowd one road while avoiding the nearly empty alternative. Average travel time rose from 64 to 95 min, although any...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.30883 · PDF

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