Jérôme Euzenat, Society = Autonomy + Adaptation, in: Proc. Dagstuhl seminar on Agents on the web, Wadern (DE), (Olivier Boissier, Andrei Ciortea, Andreas Harth, Alessandro Ricci, Danai Vachtsevanou (eds), Agents on the web (seminar 21072), Dagstuhl reports 13(2), 2023), pp86, 2023
What makes a true lively society is the capability of their members to autonomously adapt to others. It is not a set of norms cast in iron, be they programming norms or ’legal norms’. It is a set of beings trying to behave with others. This behaviour may lead to explicit norms that make explicit what should not have/need to be reinvented, but they may well remain implicit, hence continuously adapted. We should design software agents so that they are able to elaborate what drives their (social but not only) behaviours. They should be allowed to try, to make mistakes, and to transmit what they know. This is the ground on which evolution may happen. This capacity is what should be built in agents in order for them to behave without breaking too many things. The goal is not to reach a static equilibrium: in an open-ended agent space there are always opportunities to learn new things, meet new people and visit new places. Hence, rather than the state reached by agents, this is they ability to surf a dynamic disequilibrium that must be sought. This statement is somewhat made for triggering reactions within the seminar. It reacts to the apparent loss of autonomy of agents. It also extend the one I did for the previous seminar.
Jérôme Euzenat, The web as a culture broth for agents and people to grow knowledge, in: Proc. Dagstuhl seminar on Autonomous agents on the web, Wadern (DE), (Olivier Boissier, Andrei Ciortea, Andreas Harth, Alessandro Ricci (eds), Autonomous agents on the web (seminar 21072), Dagstuhl reports 11(1), 2021), pp40-41, 2021