AgentSociety: Large-Scale Simulation of LLM-Driven Generative Agents Advances Understanding of Human Behaviors and Society

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08691

Over 10k agents and about 5 million interactions; agents with profiles, emotion, needs, and cognition layers; urban, social, and economic spaces (firms, banks, government); Ray actors, asyncio, MQTT bus; DeepSeek API chosen to avoid rate limits. Experiments on polarization, inflammatory messages, universal basic income, hurricane shock.

Many-agent LLM societies