Social Reasoning and the Ecology of Thought

This workshop will emphasize the social mechanisms of reasoning; between humans, humans and AI, and between AIs. This workshop will gather AI and NeuroAI researchers, computational sociologists and philosophers of mind. The goal is to explore and forecast future developments of AI agents that can reason and interact among other reasoning agents, whether biological or artificial. This effort takes credence in the fact that human reasoning is rarely an isolated act—it is embedded in discourse, shaped by norms, and motivated by communicative goals. Topics explored will include collaborative problem-solving, argumentation, theory of mind, and the ways in which reasoning can be distributed across individuals and tools. We also consider the implications for AI systems that participate in or mediate human social reasoning, as well as alignment and safety implications.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google), Ashton Anderson (University of Toronto), Christopher Bail (Duke University), Beba Cibralic (RAND), Laura Globig (New York University), Tom Griffiths (Princeton University), Joe Henrich (Harvard University), Cameron Jones (Stony Brook University), Kristina Lerman (Indiana University), Joel Leibo (Google DeepMind), Jonathan Simon (Université de Montréal), Dawn Song (UC Berkeley).

More speakers to come.