With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies in our daily lives,
fear and anxiety about their misuse as well as their inherent biases, incorporated during …

Fairness plays a fundamental role in decision-making, which is evidenced by the high
incidence of human behaviors that result in egalitarian outcomes. This is often shown in the …

We present a summary of research that we have conducted employing AI to better
understand human morality. This summary adumbrates theoretical fundamentals and …

How to enforce cooperation among unrelated agents is one of the main concerns in
distributed artificial intelligence. The limited success of existing efforts to achieve large-scale …

Cooperation is very important in human society and identified as an essential principle of
evolution, but how to promote cooperation among rational individuals remains a huge …

Social norms regulate actions in artificial societies, steering collective behavior towards
desirable states. In real societies, social norms can solve cooperation dilemmas, constituting …

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 …

Building ethical machines may involve bestowing upon them the emotional capacity to self-
evaluate and repent on their actions. While reparative measures, such as apologies, are …

Previous experience suggests that prior agreement (a mechanism to test how strongly peers
are committed to a common goal) and posterior compensation (a way to compensate …

A theoretical investigation on the strategy evolution in the self-organized division of labor
dilemma is performed by means of evolutionary game theory. The often-used Fermi function …