Forms of both simple and complex machine intelligence are increasingly acting within
human groups in order to affect collective outcomes. Considering the nature of collective …

Recent times have seen an emergence of intelligent machines that act autonomously on our
behalf, such as autonomous vehicles. Despite promises of increased efficiency, it is not clear …

Home assistant chat-bots, self-driving cars, drones or automated negotiation systems are
some of the several examples of autonomous (artificial) agents that have pervaded our …

Understanding how people socially engage with robots is becoming increasingly important
as these machines are deployed in social settings. We investigated 70 participants' …

Theories on social learning indicate that imitative choices are usually performed whenever
copying the others' behaviour has no additional cost. Here, we extended such investigations …

No human drives a car in a vacuum; she/he must negotiate with other road users to achieve
their goals in social traffic scenes. A rational human driver can interact with other road users …

Many technical and psychological challenges make it difficult to design machines that
effectively cooperate with people. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a …

Cooperation in human groups is challenging, and various mechanisms are required to
sustain it, although it nevertheless usually decays over time. Here, we perform theoretically …

We cooperate with other people despite the risk of being exploited or hurt. If future artificial
intelligence (AI) systems are benevolent and cooperative toward us, what will we do in …

With the adoption of autonomous vehicles on our roads, we will witness a mixed-autonomy
environment where autonomous and human-driven vehicles must learn to co-exist by …