<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear colleagues and researchers,</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope this finds you well.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As the study of LLMs shifts from individual interaction to emergent social behaviors, there is a growing need for controlled environments to study digital deliberation at scale.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I've developed Agora Synthetic (<a href="https://agorasynthetic.com/">https://agorasynthetic.com/</a>)<span style="font-size:12pt"> — an open research platform that simulates public deliberation using multiple AI agents. It allows researchers to design controlled experiments where LLM-powered agents with distinct personas engage in structured discussion on topics you define.</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This is a non-commercial, academic-led initiative. My goal is to build a bridge between AI architecture and communication theory, specifically to explore:</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Deliberative Democracy: How constraints (time, rounds) affect consensus quality.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Framing & Polarization: The impact of economic vs. public health framing on coalition formation.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Algorithmic Bias: Participation inequality in agents with gendered or marginalized personas.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Epistemic Resilience: Group self-correction mechanisms when exposed to misinformation.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The platform provides metrics for academic analysis, including:</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation" style="direction:ltr">Gini coefficient (participation inequality).</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Type-Token Ratio (lexical diversity).</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Sentiment tracking & Network topology analysis.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;list-style-type:"- ""><div role="presentation">Cohen’s d effect sizes for condition comparison.</div></li></ul><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Invitation to Collaborate:</b></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am looking for fellow researchers interested in co-authoring papers using this infrastructure. If you are working on LLM-mediated communication, digital sociology, or computational ethics, I’d love to see how Agora Synthetic can support your specific research questions.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You can explore the platform and apply for research access here: <a href="https://agorasynthetic.com/">https://agorasynthetic.com/</a></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://agorasynthetic.com/">https://agorasynthetic.com/</a></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Warm regards,</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dr. Vinicius Covas</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Research Professor, Universidad Anáhuac México</div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:vinicius.covas@anahuac.mx">vinicius.covas@anahuac.mx</a></div><div style="font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div>