Date and Time: Thursday 25 September 2025, 7:00 PM - 8.30PM
Location: Trinity College Dublin - Arts Block - JM Synge Theatre
What if machines weren’t just tools, but part of society itself?
As AI systems grow more sophisticated, they’re no longer just answering our questions or speeding up tasks- they’re shaping how we think, cooperate, and make decisions. In this wide-ranging lecture, sociologist Professor Taha Yasseri invites us to rethink the relationship between people and machines. Could we be entering an era where the social isn’t just human anymore.
About the Speaker
Taha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM).
He has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.
