Andreea Musulan

Postdoctorat - UdeM

Publications

Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation

Maximilian Puelma Touzel

Sneheel Sarangi

Austin Welch

Gayatri K

Dan Zhao

Zachary Yang

Hao Yu

Tom Gibbs

Ethan Kosak-Hine

Andreea Musulan

Camille Thibault

Busra Tugce Gurbuz

Reihaneh Rabbany

Jean-François Godbout

Kellin Pelrine

The rise of AI-driven manipulation poses significant risks to societal trust and democratic processes. Yet, studying these effects in real-w… (voir plus)orld settings at scale is ethically and logistically impractical, highlighting a need for simulation tools that can model these dynamics in controlled settings to enable experimentation with possible defenses. We present a simulation environment designed to address this. We elaborate upon the Concordia framework that simulates offline, `real life' activity by adding online interactions to the simulation through social media with the integration of a Mastodon server. Through a variety of means we then improve simulation efficiency and information flow, and add a set of measurement tools, particularly longitudinal surveys of the agents' political positions. We demonstrate the simulator with a tailored example of how partisan manipulation of agents can affect election results.

2024-10-12

NeurIPS.cc/2024/Workshop/SafeGenAi (poster)

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