Seminar on 08 July: Social AI at the University of Glasgow: History, Impact and Collaboration Opportunities
Published: 30 June 2025
Join us for a talk exploring Social AI – the science of building machines that understand and respond to social interactions like humans do. We’ll share key research questions, highlight the University of Glasgow’s pioneering role in the field since 2010, and showcase the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents. The session will also spotlight exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, psychology, neuroscience, and more.
Join the Centre for Data Science and AI's Seminar by Alessandro Vinciarelli, where he will introduce Social AI, the field aimed at making machines socially intelligent, i.e., capable to automatically make sense of human-human and human-machine social interactions in the same way as people do. The presentation will cover the main scientific and technological questions underlying the field and, in addition, while also showcasing the main Social AI activities conducted at the University of Glasgow since 2010, when the field was still in its pioneering stage. The focus will be on the development of a thriving Social AI research community in the University -- a journey that culminated in the establishment of a UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents, the only CDT in AI awarded to the University of Glasgow to date. Furthermore, special emphasis will be placed on the rich opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration that Social AI offers, especially in terms of interaction between AI experts, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, neuroscientists and all other researchers interested in understanding human behaviour and its underlying phenomena.
First published: 30 June 2025
