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The art of compensation: how hybrid teams solve collective risk dilemmas
Inês Terrucha, Elias Fernández Domingos, Francisco C. Santos +2
It is widely known how the human ability to cooperate has influenced the thriving of our species. However, as we move towards a hybrid human-machine future, it is still unclear how…
Learning Collective Action under Risk Diversity
Ramona Merhej, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo +2
Collective risk dilemmas (CRDs) are a class of n-player games that represent societal challenges where groups need to coordinate to avoid the risk of a disastrous outcome. Multi-ag…
Signalling boosts the evolution of cooperation in repeated group interactions
Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero, Francisco C. Santos, Vito Trianni
Many biological and social systems show significant levels of collective action. Several cooperation mechanisms have been proposed, yet they have been mostly studied independently.…
Voluntary safety commitments provide an escape from over-regulation in AI development
The Anh Han, Tom Lenaerts, Francisco C. Santos +1
With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies in our daily lives, fear and anxiety about their misuse as well as the hidden biases in their creatio…
Delegation to autonomous agents promotes cooperation in collective-risk dilemmas
Elias Fernández Domingos, Inês Terrucha, Rémi Suchon +4
Home assistant chat-bots, self-driving cars, drones or automated negotiations are some of the several examples of autonomous (artificial) agents that have pervaded our society. The…
Evolution of collective fairness in complex networks through degree-based role assignment
Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Francisco C. Santos, Alexandre P. Francisco +1
From social contracts to climate agreements, individuals engage in groups that must collectively reach decisions with varying levels of equality and fairness. These dilemmas also p…
Artificial Intelligence Development Races in Heterogeneous Settings
Theodor Cimpeanu, Francisco C. Santos, Luis Moniz Pereira +2
Regulation of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important, given the associated risks and apparent ethical issues. With the great b…
Mediating Artificial Intelligence Developments through Negative and Positive Incentives
The Anh Han, Luis Moniz Pereira, Tom Lenaerts +1
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going through a period of great expectations, introducing a certain level of anxiety in research, business and also policy. This anxiet…
Navigating the Landscape of Multiplayer Games
Shayegan Omidshafiei, Karl Tuyls, Wojciech M. Czarnecki +9
Multiplayer games have long been used as testbeds in artificial intelligence research, aptly referred to as the Drosophila of artificial intelligence. Traditionally, researchers ha…
Timing uncertainty in collective risk dilemmas encourages group reciprocation and polarization
Elias Fernández Domingos, Jelena Grujić, Juan C. Burguillo +3
Human social dilemmas are often shaped by actions involving uncertain goals and returns that may only be achieved in the future. Climate action, voluntary vaccination and other pro…
Counterfactual thinking in cooperation dynamics
Luis Moniz Pereira, Francisco C. Santos
Counterfactual Thinking is a human cognitive ability studied in a wide variety of domains. It captures the process of reasoning about a past event that did not occur, namely what w…
To regulate or not: a social dynamics analysis of the race for AI supremacy
The Anh Han, Luis Moniz Pereira, Francisco C. Santos +1
Rapid technological advancements in AI as well as the growing deployment of intelligent technologies in new application domains are currently driving the competition between busine…
Norms for Beneficial A.I.: A Computational Analysis of the Societal Value Alignment Problem
Pedro Fernandes, Francisco C. Santos, Manuel Lopes
The rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.) based systems is already offering substantial benefits to the society as a whole. However, these systems may also enclose potential confl…
Exogenous Rewards for Promoting Cooperation in Scale-Free Networks
Theodor Cimpeanu, The Anh Han, Francisco C. Santos
The design of mechanisms that encourage pro-social behaviours in populations of self-regarding agents is recognised as a major theoretical challenge within several areas of social,…