The perspective of modelling agents rather than using them for a specificed purpose entails a difference in approach. In particular an emphasis on veracity as opposed to efficiency. An approach using evolving populations of mental models is described that goes some way to meet these concerns. It is then ar gued that social intelligence is not mer ely intelligence plus interaction but should all...

Rationality relates to making the right decisions and producing successful behaviour. The notion of building rational agents is one of the main aims of research into artificial intelligence. The current predominant approach is to develop agents which follow a decision theoretic notion of rationality in which the agent maximizes the expected utility of its actions. Although this is intuitively a...

Over the last few decades the movement of Socially Responsibly Investing (SRI) has been afoot that started almost as an anti-establishment reaction, but has morphed into mainstream consciousness and focus. It has become clear that one can go beyond the subjective implications of engaging in enterprises that produce dangerous, unhealthy or immoral products. There are many processes that optimize...

We employ a simple model to show that social selection can lead to prezygotic reproductive isolation. The evolution of social discrimination causes the congealing of phenotypically similar individuals into different, spatially distinct tribes. However, tribal formation is only obtained for certain types of social behavior: altruistic and selfish acts can produce tribes, whereas spiteful and mut...

Abstract As robots increasingly become part of our everyday lives, questions arise with regards to how approach them and understand in social contexts. The Western history human–robot relations revolves around competition control, which restricts ability relate machines other ways. In this study, we take a relational explore different manners socializing robots, especially those that exceed an ...

OBJECTIVES We explore the relationships between socially assigned race ("How do other people usually classify you in this country?"), self-identified race/ethnicity, and excellent or very good general health status. We then take advantage of subgroups which are discordant on self-identified race/ethnicity and socially assigned race to examine whether being classified by others as White conveys ...