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A New Sociology of Humans and Machines

Taha Yasseri
Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin

Abstract: In this lecture, I present a series of experiments that examine how humans and machines interact in shared social environments. Using controlled studies, I investigate situations in which humans and artificial agents compete, coordinate, and cooperate with one another. These experiments reveal how the presence of automated agents can alter human behaviour, affect collective outcomes, and sometimes lead to unexpected dynamics at the group level. The results highlight the need to empirically study human-machine collectives as social systems in their own right.

Bio: Taha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin. He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College. Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

This guest talk is hosted by Associate Professor Mikko Kivelä, Department of Computer Science.