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Realism Drives Interpersonal Reciprocity but Yields to AI-Assisted Egocentrism in a Coordination Experiment

6 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Breadboard Software , Cooperation , Experiment , Methodology , Public Goods

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Shirado, Kye Shimizu, Nicholas A Christakis, and Shunichi Kasahara. 2025. Realism Drives Interpersonal Reciprocity but Yields to AI-Assisted Egocentrism in a Coordination Experiment. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY

Simple Autonomous Agents Can Enhance Creative Discovery in Human Groups

11 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Bots , Breadboard Software , Contagion Intervention , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Methodology , NAC Favorite , Online Network , Social Contagion , Social Network

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Ueshima A, Jones MI, Christakis NA. Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups. Nature Communications. 2024 Jun 18;15(1):5212. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49528-y. PMID: 38890368; PMCID: PMC11189566.

Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans

8 | Cooperation , Economics , NAC Favorite , PNAS , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Breadboard Software , Hybrid Systems , Public Goods

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H Shirado, S Kasahara, NA Christakis. "Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans," PNAS, 2023 Dec 19;120(51):e2307804120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2307804120. Epub 2023 Dec 11.

AI and the transformation of social science research

3 | Methodology , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Science

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Grossmann I, Feinberg M, Parker DC, Christakis NA, Tetlock PE, Cunningham WA. AI and the transformation of social science research. Science. 2023 Jun 16;380(6650):1108-1109. doi: 10.1126/science.adi1778. Epub 2023 Jun 15. PMID: 37319216.

Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups

11 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Connection Intervention , Cooperation , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , NAC Favorite , Bots , Breadboard Software , Public Goods

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H. Shirado and N. A. Christakis, “Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups,” iScience, 23(9) (Aug 2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101438

Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team

6 | Methodology , NAC Favorite , PNAS , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Hybrid Systems , Contagion Intervention

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M. Traeger, S. Strohkorb Sebo, M. F. Jung, B. Scassellati, and N. A. Christakis, “Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117 (12) 6370-6375 (Mar 2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910402117

Machine Behaviour

4 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Bots , Hybrid Systems , Nature

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I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, N. Obradovich, J. Bongard, J.F. Bonnefon, C. Breazeal, J.W. Crandall, N. A. Christakis, I.D. Couzin, M.O. Jackson, N.R. Jennings, E. Kamar, I.M. Kloumann, H. Larochelle, D. Lazer, R. McElreath, A. Mislove, D.C. Parkes, A. Pentland, M.E. Roberts, A. Shariff, J.B. Tenenbaum, and M. Wellman, “Machine Behaviour,” Nature, 568: 477-486 (Apr 2019)

Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments (Nature, 2017)

13 | Methodology , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Biological Network , Behavior Genetics , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Bots , NAC Favorite , Nature , Breadboard Software , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Public Goods

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H. Shirado and N.A. Christakis, "Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments" Nature, 545, 370–374 (18 May 2017) doi:10.1038/nature22332

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