The HUMANET lab studies networks composed of humans and intelligent machines such as bots and algorithms. Employing experimental, computational, and data science methods, we aim to build the foundations of a new cumulative empirical sociology of humans and machines.
Thomas is giving a talk at the upcoming workshop on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the National University of Singapore. Thereafter, he is heading…
Milena joined a group of computer scientists and cognitive psychologists from University College London and the London area to present ongoing work by the…
The ERC Magazine’s special issue on the Digital Services Act (DSA) featured an article about HUMANET. Article 40 of the DSA grants researchers the…
Milena had the honor the work with Petter Holme on a paper about the origins and development of artificially intelligent agents in the social…
Hiroki presented our onging work “Social influence and behavioral contagion: A Reddit bot field experiment” at the International Conference on Computational Social Science in…
In June, Milena gave a keynote talk at WEHIA 2025 – The 28th Annual Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents hosted by Queen…
We are looking for two new postdoctoral researchers to join the HUMANET team. The postdoc positions are for up to three years at the…
Milena gave a keynote talk at the Doing AI Differently workshop. The workshop gathered scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, with a special focus on…
HUMANET received €2 million in funding from the European Research Council for the period 2025-2030. The project will bring together an interdisciplinary team of…
Our perspective article “A new sociology of humans and machines” came out in Nature Human Behaviour. The article argues that networks of multiple interdependent…