The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle

DJ Penn, S Számadó - Biological Reviews, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The most widely cited explanation for the evolution of reliable signals is Zahavi's so‐called
Handicap Principle, which proposes that signals are honest because they are costly to …

Fake news on the internet: a literature review, synthesis and directions for future research

Y Wu, EWT Ngai, P Wu, C Wu - Internet Research, 2022‏ - emerald.com
Purpose The extensive distribution of fake news on the internet (FNI) has significantly
affected many lives. Although numerous studies have recently been conducted on this topic …

Simulation intelligence: Towards a new generation of scientific methods

A Lavin, D Krakauer, H Zenil, J Gottschlich… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

(Why) is misinformation a problem?

Z Adams, M Osman, C Bechlivanidis… - Perspectives on …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One
important aspect of this work that receives less attention than it should is exactly why …

A (dis-) information theory of revealed and unrevealed preferences: emerging deception and skepticism via theory of mind

N Alon, L Schulz, JS Rosenschein, P Dayan - Open Mind, 2023‏ - direct.mit.edu
In complex situations involving communication, agents might attempt to mask their
intentions, exploiting Shannon's theory of information as a theory of misinformation. Here …

Effect of disinformation propagation on opinion dynamics: A game theoretic approach

Z Guo, J Valinejad, JH Cho - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disinformation can alter or manipulate our values, opinions, and rational decisions toward
any life event because disinformation, such as fake news or rumors, is propagated rapidly …

Impact of misinformation in the evolution of collective cooperation on networks

Y Meng, M Broom, A Li - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human societies are organized and developed through collective cooperative behaviours.
Based on the information in their environment, individuals can form collective cooperation by …

The evolution of deception

Ş Sarkadi, A Rutherford… - Royal Society …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deception plays a critical role in the dissemination of information, and has important
consequences on the functioning of cultural, market-based and democratic institutions …

An arms race in theory-of-mind: Deception drives the emergence of higher-level theory-of-mind in agent societies

Ş Sarkadi - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been argued that using Theory-of-Mind (ToM) is a fundamental cognitive ability that
underpins effective deceptive behaviour. However, we still do not have a clear …

Characterising deception in AI: A survey

P Masters, W Smith, L Sonenberg, M Kirley - Deceptive AI: First …, 2021‏ - Springer
In 2000, it was predicted that artificially intelligent agents would inevitably become
deceptive. Today, in a world seemingly awash with fake news and in which we hand over …