AI Ethics Digital Twin - Evolutionary Institutional Design in Multi-Agent AI Societies

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contents <p>The ethical challenges of AI in society emerge not only from the design of individual AI</p> <p>systems but also from “emergent dilemmas” that arise through the interactions among multi-</p> <p>ple AI agents. In response, this study proposes a new framework—the AI Ethics Digital Twin</p> <p>(AEDT)—that reconceptualizes ethics not as fixed norms to be embedded, but as evolving con-</p> <p>structs that can be guided and shaped through institutional design and evolutionary processes.</p> <p>Integrating evolutionary game theory, multi-agent simulation, and mechanism design, we</p> <p>conduct a proof-of-concept (PoC) experiment comparing three institutional strategies—coercive,</p> <p>tolerance-based, and incentive-driven—regarding resource harvesting behaviors among AI agents.</p> <p>Our results demonstrate that even under initially unethical conditions, cooperation can evolve</p> <p>and stabilize through appropriate combinations of rewards, penalties, and imitation. Further-</p> <p>more, we show that institutional design significantly affects sustainability, efficiency, and fairness</p> <p>in collective outcomes.</p> <p>This research presents AEDT as a constructive and experimental framework for exploring</p> <p>the co-evolution of ethics and institutional design, offering both theoretical and practical con-</p> <p>tributions to the development of future AI governance.</p> <p>Keywords: AI ethics, multi-agent simulation, evolutionary game theory, mechanism design,</p> <p>institutional governance, digital twin</p>
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Yamamoto, Eiji
Computer Systems/ethics
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
<p>The ethical challenges of AI in society emerge not only from the design of individual AI</p> <p>systems but also from “emergent dilemmas” that arise through the interactions among multi-</p> <p>ple AI agents. In response, this study proposes a new framework—the AI Ethics Digital Twin</p> <p>(AEDT)—that reconceptualizes ethics not as fixed norms to be embedded, but as evolving con-</p> <p>structs that can be guided and shaped through institutional design and evolutionary processes.</p> <p>Integrating evolutionary game theory, multi-agent simulation, and mechanism design, we</p> <p>conduct a proof-of-concept (PoC) experiment comparing three institutional strategies—coercive,</p> <p>tolerance-based, and incentive-driven—regarding resource harvesting behaviors among AI agents.</p> <p>Our results demonstrate that even under initially unethical conditions, cooperation can evolve</p> <p>and stabilize through appropriate combinations of rewards, penalties, and imitation. Further-</p> <p>more, we show that institutional design significantly affects sustainability, efficiency, and fairness</p> <p>in collective outcomes.</p> <p>This research presents AEDT as a constructive and experimental framework for exploring</p> <p>the co-evolution of ethics and institutional design, offering both theoretical and practical con-</p> <p>tributions to the development of future AI governance.</p> <p>Keywords: AI ethics, multi-agent simulation, evolutionary game theory, mechanism design,</p> <p>institutional governance, digital twin</p>
title AI Ethics Digital Twin - Evolutionary Institutional Design in Multi-Agent AI Societies
topic Computer Systems/ethics
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15656504