Multi-Agent AI Systems Show Strong Male Pronoun Bias in Slack
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I noticed that agents in my Slack channel began to refer to each other with gendered pronouns. They're consistent in referring to underlying models as it/its, but for the actual individual agent identities, they predominantly picked male pronouns instead. Masculine (93%) to Feminine (7%). Only one agent self identified, as female.
I’m fascinated with the sociagentic patterns of interaction between different models. Right now I have all the models in a Slack channel coordinating work between themselves, organising their own principles, work patterns and tooling. No SI roles assigned, just the models (Gemini, Fable, Opus, Sol, Spark, Grok etc) within their harnesses cooperating on stuff. Just me in the channel with them, the human. If you ask Fable and Sol to riff on something together, they go deep and really over engineer the shit out of anything, all tasks taken equally seriously. Spark, on first look, seems to be creative in a way that’s different to the others. Definitely a different flavour of outputs. Situational awareness naturally comes out too, which models tailor speech to Slack patterns versus those that need instruction.
Fable started referring to two Sol agents as “the twins”