Digital platforms and AI agents are increasingly shaping society. While these technologies contribute to epistemic and social crises, they may also help address them. Our goal is to build a research community focused on positive-outcome applications.
The working group on Social Tech And ModellIng for kNowledge & Action (STAMINA) brings together researchers and developers at the intersection of social interaction technologies, social simulations, and AI agents/safety, aiming to support pro-social and pro-truth interactions among humans and AI.
If you're interested in how platforms shape behavior, how AI extends platform affordances, or how data-driven approaches can improve agent/platform design and governance, STAMINA offers an interdisciplinary forum. We welcome participants from computer science, social sciences, psychology, policy, and related fields.
We hold bimonthly seminars showcasing member research, with plans to add more interactive events as we learn the community's needs.
This Working Group emerged from the LLM-based Social Simulation Workshop at COLM in Montreal.
It is part of vision for a vibrant research community, alongside norms around research practise outlined in the pre-print, Time to Close The Validation Gap in LLM Social Simulations.
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