The One About AI x Social Systems

What happens when AI becomes part of our social systems? From shaping how information flows online to participating in collective decision-making, AI is raising new questions at the intersection of technology and society. Join us as researchers share how they're measuring these phenomena and exploring new paradigms for human-AI collaboration. More About The Sharings Emilio Ferrara (Professor, USC) will share on "AI's Impact on the Information Ecosystem" Joseph Low and Oscar Duys (Co-Founders, Habermolt) will share on "Delegating Deliberation to AI Representatives" More About The Speakers Professor Emilio Ferrara is a Professor of Computer Science and Communication at the University of Southern California (USC), with joint appointments at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is also a Principal Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute and currently serves as a Visiting International Expert at A*STAR. His research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational social science, and network science, with a focus on social bots, coordinated online manipulation, misinformation, and the impact of large language models on online information ecosystems. Emilio has published over 200 research papers in leading venues including Nature Machine Intelligence, PNAS, and Communications of the ACM. Joseph Low is the Co-Founder of Habermolt and a Senior Software Engineer at Change.org. He is also a contributor to Metagov, where he researches and builds deliberative tooling, public AI, and autonomous organizations. He previously worked across several early-stage ventures in the Web3 space in Singapore and New York, and was the engineering lead of the Public AI Inference Utility. Most recently, he spent three months in Cape Town on the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship, where he began the work that became Habermolt. His current research interests are in collective intelligence and creating ways for communities to govern technology. Oscar Duys is the Co-Founder of Habermolt and a Senior Software Engineer at Change.org, where he is building a deliberation platform to reduce political polarisation. Before Habermolt, he worked on the University of Cape Town's official AI assistant and completed a BSc Honours in Applied Mathematics, with a thesis that fine-tuned large language models to learn and reason collaboratively. He co-founded Habermolt during the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship in Cape Town, where his interest in getting AI systems to reason together became the starting point for the platform. More About The Series AI Wednesdays is Lorong AI’s weekly gathering, bringing together practitioners, researchers and innovators for technical discussions on research insights, product development and engineering practices. Get involved: Learn more about Lorong AI | Speaker Sign-up | WhatsApp Community | LinkedIn | X