Making agreements on how to behave has been shown to be an evolutionarily viable
strategy in one-shot social dilemmas. However, in many situations agreements aim to …

Prejudicial attitudes are widely seen between human groups, with significant consequences.
Actions taken in light of prejudice result in discrimination, and can contribute to societal …

This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer
science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a …

This work studies the impact of economic inequality on the evolution of intolerance through a
reputation-based model of indirect reciprocity. Results show that economic inequality is a …

Abstract Machine ethics is a sprouting interdisciplinary field of enquiry arising from the need
of imbuing autonomous agents with some capacity for moral decision-making. Its overall …

I vividly recall one episode that happened some years ago to one of my little cousins. She
must have been three years old at the time. When her father told her off for picking flowers in …

The purpose of this monograph is to support the SME management through raising
awareness on changes occurring in today's economy and presenting a social innovation …

Existing studies of the multi-group dynamics of prejudiced societies focus on the social-
psychological knowledge behind the relevant processes. We instead create a multi-agent …

This chapter addresses the collective realm computationally, using Evolutionary Game
Theory in populations of individuals, to report on norms and morality emergence. These …

This work introduces a model in which agents of a network act upon one another according
to three different kinds of moral decisions. These decisions are based on an increasing level …