Join us for a seminar on “Inequality and Prosociality in Social and Artificial Systems” by Martin Smit, PhD Researcher in the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group at the Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam.

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Seminar Overview

While humans appear to be programmed from birth with prosocial traits like empathy, the AI systems we build often fail to achieve these same cooperative outcomes. As rising inequality becomes a defining challenge of our time, it raises a critical question: How are our algorithm-driven systems contributing to this divide?

In this talk, Martin Smit will explore complex social systems through the lens of AI and multi-agent systems. He will discuss three specific ways that inequality can arise in environments where our interactions are facilitated by algorithms: rating systems, recommender systems, and interaction networks.

About the Speaker

Martin Smit is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam within the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group. His research explores complex social systems from an AI and multi-agent systems perspective, with a primary focus on the dynamics of cooperation and fairness. By analyzing how these systems evolve, Martin aims to bridge the gap between human prosociality and artificial intelligence.