A New Sociology of Humans and Machines

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.