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Artificial Intelligence Systems Distort Upstream Selection in Human Social Learning

2026-08-06

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<p>Humans are social learners who depend on observing others to acquire knowledge, norms, and behaviors, a capacity that underlies cumulative cultural evolution. Social learning unfolds in two stages: upstream selection determines what information becomes visible, and downstream selection determines what learners copy from that visible sample. Downstream selection occurs through biases such as conformity bias (cop...

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Literature Corpus work: 8c9d0a29-f437-5206-83df-301c02ca42a4
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qmh3s_v2

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