Past Events

Here you can find an overview of past seminars and events, including recordings where available.
 

On 29-30 April 2024, we hosted the Machine+Behavior Conference. The event brought together an interdisciplinary group of experts dedicated to exploring the dynamic interplay between machine and human behavior. Held at the historic Harnack House, the conference served as a pivotal platform for dialogue, highlighting the transformative impact of AI on our society. more

Speaker: Theo Offerman, University of Amsterdam
Seminar: AI-Powered Promises: The Influence of ChatGPT on Trust and Trustworthiness
Date: July 9, 2024

Speaker: Erik Tuchtfeld, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Seminar: The first of its kind: The EU’s AI Act as an attempt to comprehensively regulate the use of artificial intelligence
Date: July 2, 2024

Speaker: Amy Orben, University of Cambridge
Seminar: Rethinking how we study digital technologies and their impact on teen mental health
Date: June 25, 2024

Speaker: Misha Sra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Seminar: Augmenting Humans
Date: June 11, 2024

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Speaker: Bret A. Beheim, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Seminar: Cycles, Cohorts, and the Zeitgeist: Using Big Data to Reveal the Forces of Cultural Evolution
Date: May 28, 2024

Speaker: Anxo Sánchez, Charles III University of Madrid
Seminar: A mathematical description of decision making processes involving norms and its experimental validation
Date: May 21, 2024

Speaker: Emilio Calvano, Tor Vergata University
Seminar: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Recommendations, and Competition
Date: May 14, 2024

Speaker: Sebastian Fehrler, Universität Bremen
Seminar: Similarity and Consistency in Algorithm-Guided Exploration
Date: April 9, 2024

Speaker: The Anh Han, Teesside University
Seminar: Leveraging Voluntary Commitments for Advancing Cooperation and AI Safety: A Game Theoretical Approach
Date: March 19, 2024
 

Speaker: Andrés Abeliuk, University of Chile
Seminar: The Social Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making
Date: February 20, 204

Speaker: Christian Hilbe, MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Seminar: The Evolutionary Game Theory of Cooperation, Social Norms, and Modesty
Date: January 16, 2024

Speaker: Taha Yasseri, University College Dublin
Seminar: Three Experiments in Dyadic Collaboration among Humans and Machines
Date: December 5, 2023

 

Speaker: Sven Nyholm, Ludwig Maximilians Universität
Seminar: Ethical Accident Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles and the Trolley Problem: Three Philosophical Disputes
Date: September 26, 2023

 

Speaker: Kenza Ait Si Abbou, IBM
Seminar: AI Renaissance? Reflecting on a New Era of Societal Transformation
Date: August 29, 2023

 

Speaker: James Evans, University of Chicago
Seminar: Accelerating science with human-aware artificial intelligence
Date: July 11, 2023

Speaker: Yoshihisa Kashima, University of Melbourne
Seminar: The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics
Date: June 27, 2023

Speaker: Pinar Yanardag, Bogazici University
Seminar: Interpretable Deep Generative Models for Creativity and Human-AI Collaboration
Date: June 6, 2023

 

Speaker: Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University
Seminar: Anticipating Impacts: AI Governance and the Question of Foresight
Date: May 23, 2023

Speaker: Sydney Levine, Allen Institute for AI
Seminar: Moral Flexibility in Human and Machine Minds
Date: May 9, 2023

 

Speaker: Michiel Bakker, DeepMind
Seminar: Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences
Date: April 18, 2023

 

Speaker: Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Bard College Berlin
Seminar: Scientific Thought in Modern Arab Art
Date: March 28, 2023

Speaker: Linda Onnasch, Technische Universität Berlin
Seminar: Anthropomorphic robot design – A differentiated look at the effectiveness of humanlike cues in HRI
Date: March 21, 2023

 

Speaker: Joel Z Leibo, DeepMind
Seminar: Multiagent Artificial General Intelligence
Date: February 28, 2023

Speaker: Molly Crockett, Princeton University
Seminar: Imagining Worlds Anew: Technology & the Cultural Evolution of Normativity
Date: December 6, 2022

Speaker: Maximilian Schich, Tallinn University
Seminar: Cultural Data Analytics meets Humans & Machines
Date: December 1, 2022

 

Speaker: Verena Hafner, Humboldt University Berlin
Seminar: Tool use and agency in artificial agents
Date: November 22, 2022

 

Speaker: Hirokazu Shirado, Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar: Collective Action in Hybrid Systems of Humans and Machines
Date: November 8, 2022

Speaker: Alberto Acerbi, Brunel University London
Seminar: Cultural evolution in the digital age
Date: August 30, 2022

 

Speaker: Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar: Long ties: Formation, social contagion, and economic outcomes
Date: July 12, 2022

 

Speaker: Henrik Skaug Sætra, Østfold University College
Seminar: A shallow defence of a technocracy of artificial intelligence
Date: June 28, 2022

 

Speakers: William Powers, Public Mind & Center for Humans and Machines, in conversation with Iyad Rahwan
Salon: Tracking the Public Mind: can online discourse be a force for good?
Date: June 21, 2022

 

Speaker: Anne Scherer, University of Zurich
Seminar: Reactance to Human versus Artificial Intelligence
Date: June 14, 2022

 

Panelists: Johann König (KÖNIG GALERIE), Iyad Rahwan, Yvonne Bialek, and Levin Brinkmann (Center for Humans and Machines)
Moderator: Anika Meier (Kunstforum)
Salon: NFTs, Artificial Intelligence and Culture
Date: May 24, 2022

 

Speaker: Anja Bodenschatz, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
Seminar: Preferences in Human-Machine Interactions – The Impact of Personal Affectedness
Date: April 26, 2022

 

Speaker: Johanna Thoma, Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
Seminar: Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents: The Moral Proxy Problem
Date: April 5, 2022

 

Speaker: Julian De Freitas, Ethical Intelligence Lab, Harvard Business School
Seminar: How Should We Market Ethical Aspects of Autonomous Vehicle Behavior?
Date: March 22, 2022

 

Speaker: Beth Singler, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, in conversation with William Powers, Visiting Scholar for Humanistic Technologies at CHM
Salon: AI, Us, and Our Dreams of the Future
Date: March 15, 2022

 

Speaker: Chiara Longoni, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Seminar: Artificial Intelligence in the Government: Responses to Failures and Social Impact
Date: February 22, 2022

 

Speaker: Meeyoung Cha, Associate Professor, KAIST School of Computing & Chief Investigator, Institute for Basic Science
Distinguished Lecture: Data Science for Social Impact: Poverty Mapping with Deep Learning
Date: February 15, 2022

 

Speaker: Falk Lieder, Max Planck Research Group Leader for Rationality Enhancement (MPI for Intelligent Systems)
Seminar: Improving Human Decision-Making and Learning with Psychologically-Informed Technologies
Date: February 8, 2022

 

Speaker: Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Seminar: The rise of Creative AI and its ethics
Date: January 11, 2022


 

Speaker: Amy Kurzweil, New Yorker cartoonist and author in conversation with Iyad Rahwan
Salon: Cartooning AI anxiety
Date: December 7, 2021

 

Speaker: Jurgis Karpus, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Seminar: Algorithm Exploitation: Humans are keen to exploit benevolent AI
Date: October 19, 2021

 

 

Speaker: Moshe Hoffman, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Seminar: A Game Theoretic Account of Spin and Motivated Reasoning
Date: September 7, 2021

 

Speaker: John Danaher, National University of Ireland (NUI)
Seminar: Understanding Techno-Moral Revolutions
Date: August 24, 2021

 

Speaker: Samir Simon Suweis, University of Padova 
Seminar: An Online Game Platform to Study Systemic Sustainability of Common Pool Resources with Environmental Feedback
Date: July 6, 2021

 


Speaker: Elias Fernández Domingos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Seminar: Delegation to autonomous agents promotes cooperation in collective risk dilemmas
Date: June 29, 2021


Speaker: Tripat Gill, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo

Seminar: Moral Dilemmas of Autonomous Vehicles. No, Not Again! Yes, Because They are Important.
Date: June 01, 2021


 

Speaker: Roberta Sinatra, IT University of Copenhagen

Seminar: Quantifying the biases of scientific success
Date: May 18, 2021

Speaker: Jennifer M. Logg, Georgetown University

Seminar: Developing a “Theory of Machine” to Examine Perceptions of Algorithms
Date: May 04, 2021

 

Speaker: Nathanael J. Fast, University of Southern California 

Seminar: The Psychology of Algorithm Adoption (and Rejection) at Work
Date: April 20, 2021

 

Speaker: William J. Brady, Yale University   

Seminar: Moral emotions in the digital age
Date: April 13, 2021

 

Speaker: Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California

Seminar: Biases in Data & Other Threats to Validity of Predictive Models
Date: April 06, 2021

 

Speaker: Amir Dezfouli, CSIRO

Seminar: Neural network and reinforcement-learning models for modelling and influencing behaviour
Date: February 23, 2021

 

Speaker: Berkeley J. Dietvorst, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Seminar: People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error
Date: February 09, 2021

 

Speaker: Adam Waytz, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

Seminar: Humans and machines
Date: January 12, 2021


Speaker: Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent

Seminar: Switching Tracks? A Two-Dimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology
Date: December 15, 2020


Speaker: Maria del Rio Chanona, University of Oxford

Seminar: Occupational mobility and Automation: A data-driven network model
Date: November 17, 2020


Speaker: Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California (USC)

Seminar: The psychological and organizational implications of autonomy-mediated interaction
Date: November 10, 2020


Speaker: Nils Köbis, Center for Humans and Machines/ Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Seminar: Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry
Date: October 20, 2020


Speaker: Pantelis P. Analytis, University of Southern Denmark

Seminar: The Structure of social Influence in Recommender Network
Date: September 22, 2020

 

Speaker: Inho Hong, Center for Humans and Machines/ Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Seminar: The universal pathway to innovative urban economies
Date: August 25, 2020

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