From Artificial Agents to Artificial Societies
Speaker (s):
Lynnette NG
PhD
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
| Date: Time: Venue: | | 25 August 2026, Tuesday 2:00pm – 3:00pm School of Computing &
Information Systems 1 (SCIS 1)
Level 5, Meeting Room 5.1
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar. 
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About the Talk
As AI moves from individual agents towards populations that interact with humans and with one another, we ask: what kinds of societies will they create? Drawing on my research on social bots, coordinations, stance and multi-agent simulation, this talk develops a research agenda for studying these artificial societies through three interconnected lenses: Language, Agents and Networks. We explore ideas like how stances evolve, how human and artificial actors behave and coordinate, and how their interactions produce collective dynamics and emergent social structures. These perspectives move us toward computationally grounded societies in which humans and AI increasingly co-exist and co-evolve.
About the Speaker
Dr Lynnette NG obtained her PhD in Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. Her current research examines multi-agent social systems, focusing on the network and engagement impact of automated agents on social media. Her work has been published in venues such as AAAI International Conference for Web and Social Media, ACM The Web Conference, Scientific Reports and so forth. Her work has also won Best Paper Awards at leading journals, and have been featured in magazine articles of New Scientist, the New Yorker, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dr Lynnette currently does research at DSTA.
