Prior to my Ph.D., I implemented self-organizing multi-agent systems and conducted socioeconomic experiments in simulation as part of a research program, known as computational justice. By simulating artificial agent communities that sustained themselves from a common pool resource, I was able to study the effects of enforcing “retributive justice” on non-compliant agent behavior [1].

I won’t go into more detail about this work as I haven’t continued that path of research, but the prospects of exploring justice and ethics within artificial intelligence remains a relevant endeavor of mine.

References

[1] M. Zolotas and J. Pitt, “Self-Organising Error Detection and Correction in Open Multi-agent Systems”, IEEE International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, 2016.