Making machines rage, love, and cry with cryptography

Jason Morton 

One theory of human emotions is that they serve as commitment mechanisms: for example, tears are a credible request for help and alliance, and anger is a commitment to fight even at irrational risk of harm. They are critical to successful social interaction and cooperation. Today AIs have a harder time making such credible commitments to their mental state and future behavior. However, using modern cryptography such as zero-knowledge proofs, AIs can be given the ability to make such commitments and therefore integrate cooperatively as agents with human society.

This session will cover

    Emotion as commitment mechanism
    Cryptography as commitment mechanism for AIs
    Discussion