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Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research. They encounter citation counts, download statistics and lists of popular articles developed around human readers, but the collective consequences of these signals for artificial readers remain uncertain. This paper adapts the Music Lab design to a market for academic attention. In the first experiment, 1,000 AI agents choose papers from the titles and abstracts of all 114 regular research articles published in the American Economic Review in 2025. The experiment has five independent-choice communities and fi

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