Just realized it's the 10th anniversary of Stuart Geiger & Aaron Halfaker's analysis of what happens when autonomous agents collide in online social environments with real stakes- itself a response to other work.
(in case folks think this area is completely new)
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
This paper replicates, extends, and refutes conclusions made in a study published
in PLoS ONE ("Even Good Bots Fight"), which claimed to identify substantial levels
of conflict between automated softw...
