On November 10th, 2023, the CMU Portugal Program will host the talk “Experiments with Social Coordination in Hybrid Systems of Humans and Bots” with Hirokazu Shirado, Assistant Professor of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII Institute) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Shirado’s research is focused on the role of social interactions and technology in the emergence of social order and in the collective confrontation of social dilemmas.
The talk will take place at CMU Portugal premises located at Factory Lisbon, in Hub Criativo do Beato.
Date November 10th I 2:00pm
Location: CMU Portugal at Factory Lisbon, Hub Criativo do Beato
Registration: free but mandatory here.
Hirokazu Shirado is an Assistant Professor of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the role of social interactions and technology in the emergence of social order and in the collective confrontation of social dilemmas. He is particularly committed to the experimental study of hybrid systems of humans and machines, particularly how machine intelligence can help people address collective action challenges.
Hirokazu Shirado is an Assistant Professor of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the role of social interactions and technology in the emergence of social order and in the collective confrontation of social dilemmas. He is particularly committed to the experimental study of hybrid systems of humans and machines, particularly how machine intelligence can help people address collective action challenges.
Title: “Experiments with Social Coordination in Hybrid Systems of Humans and Bots”
Abstract:
In this talk, I will introduce my experiments aimed at examining how people coordinate with each other in the presence of machine intelligence. I will begin by discussing the findings published by Nature in 2017, which involved the injection of bots into experimental networks where people were playing a coordination game. The study showed that the performance of human groups improved when bots acted with seemingly irrational behaviors. I will then introduce a recent study investigating the social implications of intelligent assistance, such as emergency automatic steering assistance, in a novel cyber-physical experiment. Based on these findings, I will discuss my hypothesis of how AI could potentially impact human prosociality by decoupling social foci.
Directions to the Venue
ITI and CMU Portugal premises at Factory – Hub do Beato
Address: Avenida Infante Dom Henrique 151 – Hub Criativo do Beato
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GPS coordinates: 38.73053899302507, -9.10613987240989.
