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I ran 1,000+ simulated social games using Claude Opus 4.6
and found that AI agent collectives develop structured leadership dynamics.
Core findings:
1. Influence creates a protective leadership shield
2. Consistency violation (not factual error) collapses leadership — 95% vs 10%
3. Leadership frames survive individual leaders through successor agents
4. Frame legitimacy depends on speaker type, not content alone
5. Triadic governance structures provide the highest collective stability (87.5%)
We propose the AI Leadership Equations — a formal model of collective stability.
Full paper: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4S7RC