5 papers
Online Safety Regulation Increases Privacy Risk: Evidence from the UK Online Safety Act
Dhyey Mehta, Eldar Jalilzade, Maksim Kalameyets +5
Governments worldwide are increasingly regulating digital platforms to reduce online harms, particularly those affecting children. However, access restrictions can alter user behav…
Evolutionary Dynamics of Reputation-Based Voluntary Prisoner's Dilemma Games
Chen Shen, Zhao Song, Xinyu Wang +4
Cooperation underlies many natural and artificial systems. While voluntary participation can sustain cooperation without informational assumptions, real interactions are rarely ano…
Overcoming the Machine Penalty with Imperfectly Fair AI Agents
Zhen Wang, Ruiqi Song, Chen Shen +7
Despite rapid technological progress, effective human-machine cooperation remains a significant challenge. Humans tend to cooperate less with machines than with fellow humans, a ph…
Mutation mitigates finite-size effects in spatial evolutionary games
Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Lei Shi +1
Agent-based simulations are essential for studying cooperation on spatial networks. However, finite-size effects -- random fluctuations due to limited network sizes -- can cause ce…
Constructive agents nullify the ability of destructive agents to foster cooperation in public goods games
Yuting Dong, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +2
Existing studies have revealed a paradoxical phenomenon in public goods games, wherein destructive agents, harming both cooperators and defectors, can unexpectedly bolster cooperat…