Bosses, Kings, and the Commons: Cooperation Under Power Asymmetry in LLM Societies

In three linesSovSim, a multi-agent simulation framework, evaluates how 11 state-of-the-art LLMs manage shared resources under asymmetric power structures. Finding: introducing an agent with disproportionate power (boss/king) causes 87.3% degradation in survival rate and cooperation breakdowns compared to symmetric settings.

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