Francisco C. Santos — INESC-ID researcher and Coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) Research Area, as well as Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has co-authored a chapter titled Acção climática e cooperação num mundo incerto (“Climate action and cooperation in an uncertain world”), together with Jorge M. Pacheco (University of Minho).

Using Game Theory, Santos and Pacheco look at how cooperation can take place within multi-agent societies and impact on climate action. This chapter is part of Complexidade: Implicações e Políticas Globais (“Complexity: Implications and Global Policies”), a book coordinated by Rui Malhó (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa), only available in Portuguese, and authored by an interdisciplinary plethora of specialists, where a variety of topics of considerable societal concern, and with which complexity science intersects, are explored.

Investigating AI systems (agents, robots, etc.) that are social and pro-social — with research work that spans many different topics in affective computing, planning, games & interactive storytelling, robotics, evolutionary game theory and machine learning — AIPS is one of the eleven Research Areas that make up the research tissue of INESC-ID, covering a wide range of topics in computer science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering. You can learn more about the INESC-ID Research Areas here.