4 papers
Increasing intelligence in AI agents can worsen collective outcomes
Neil F. Johnson
When resources are scarce, will a population of AI agents coordinate in harmony, or descend into tribal chaos? Diverse decision-making AI from different developers is entering ever…
Theory of the evolutionary minority game
T. S. Lo, P. M. Hui, N. F. Johnson
We present a theory which describes a recently introduced model of an evolving, adaptive system in which agents compete to be in the minority. The agents themselves are able to evo…
Segregation in a competing and evolving population
P. M. Hui, T. S. Lo, N. F. Johnson
We study a recently proposed model in which an odd number of agents are competing to be in the minority. The agents have one strategy in hand which is to follow the most recent his…
Evolutionary freezing in a competitive population
N. F. Johnson, D. J. T. Leonard, P. M. Hui +1
We show that evolution in a population of adaptive agents, repeatedly competing for a limited resource, can come to an abrupt halt. This transition from evolutionary to non-evoluti…