HIIT Guest Lecture: Luca Maria Aiello "Emergence of new Behaviors in Agentic AI Societies"
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Time: 04.06.2026 10:00-11:00
Location: Maarintie 8, room TU3
Speaker: Luca Maria Aiello, Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Title: Emergence of new Behaviors in Agentic AI Societies
Abstract:
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming the Web and redefining how people experience it. New AI models are replacing or augmenting core online services that assist users in their daily habits, such as searching for information, following the news, and interacting on social platforms. These GenAI services are also evolving from isolated tools into interacting agent populations, a transition widely anticipated to redefine the technological landscape of the coming decade. This technological transformation carries profound societal implications for the evolution of online public discourse. However, multi-agent GenAI deployment is advancing with limited monitoring and little consideration of its long-term systemic consequences. We use methods at the intersection of Complexity Science, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction to develop a quantitative understanding of the dynamics of complex sociotechnical systems in which human and AI behavior are increasingly intertwined. We find that these systems exhibit emergent properties that open a promising and entirely new research area for the Computational Social Sciences to explore.
Bio:
Luca Maria Aiello is Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he is member of the NEtwoRks, Data and Society group (NERDS). Previously, he worked for 10 years as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs and Nokia Bell Labs. He conducts research in Computational Social Science with a special focus on understanding cooperation processes through the study of conversational language with the use of advanced Natural Language Processing tools. He has been awarded a 3-year grant from the Carlsberg foundation to investigate emergent processes of climate action in online social media. His work has been covered by hundreds of articles published by news outlets worldwide including Wired, WSJ, and BBC. He was once interviewed by Captain James T. Kirk.