Swarming Generates Rebel Workers in Honeybees

Swarming Generates Rebel Workers in Honeybees

According to kin selection theory, the colony kin structure of eusocial insects motivates workers' altruistic behaviors and therefore their sterility or restricted reproduction [1]. Indeed, theory and cross-species comparison confirm that workers engage in their own reproduction depending on relatedness among colony members [2, 3]. We show that in a honeybee colony, the workers switch from thei...

Cognitive Support for Rebel Agents

Rebel agents are intelligent agents that can oppose goals or plans assigned to them, or the general attitudes and/or behavior of other agents. They can serve purposes such as ethics, safety, and task execution correctness; enhance social co-creativity, and provide or support diverse points of view. We previously proposed a framework for AI rebellion and explored various scenarios that have posi...

Accountability and Responsiveness in Rebel Regimes

Swarming in bounded domains

The Vicsek model is a prototype for the emergence of collective motion. In free space, it is characterized by a swarm of particles all moving in the same direction. Since this dynamic does not include attraction among particles, the swarm, while aligning in velocity space, has no spatial coherence. Adding specular reflection at the boundaries generates global spatial coherence of the swarms whi...

REBEL - Reconfigurable Block Encryption Logic

Existing block cipher function designs have tended to deploy the secret bits in a specific and limited way. We generalize the role of the secret as truth tables of Boolean gates in a carefully designed logic schema. Our claims are: these reconfigurable functions are pseudo one-way and pseudo random functions. Such a function family is proposed using reconfigurable gates. Based on this function ...