Covid Crisis Lab - Seminar Series - Luca Maria Aiello

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https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/92296048145

COVID CRISIS LAB Seminar Series 2024 — Spring edition

Luca Maria Aiello, “The Language of Coordination, from Humans to AI Agents” 

ABSTRACT

A defining task for humankind is to achieve mass coordination to tackle global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and mass migrations. Social science research has identified psycho-linguistic aspects of social interactions that can trigger spontaneous coordination when used strategically in the public debate. We created Natural Language Processing tools that can capture these social dimensions from conversations, and found that they can explain and predict outcome of consensus and coordination. Furthermore, we show that these dimensions can be used to prompt AI agents powered by Large Language Models to make them behave as persuasive social agents that could be seamlessly integrated in the public discourse of social media platforms.

SHORT BIO

Luca Maria Aiello is an Associate 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.

For further information on the talk, please contact covidcrisislab@unibocconi.it