Cooperative social networking of humans and machines

• Project/Area Number: 25K01452
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 25010:Social systems engineering-related
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Holme Petter 神戸大学, 計算社会科学研究センター, リサーチフェロー (50802352)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 笹原 和俊 東京科学大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 教授 (60415172) ; 村田 剛志 東京科学大学, 情報理工学院, 教授 (90242289) ; 上東 貴志 神戸大学, 計算社会科学研究センター, 教授 (30324908)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2029-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000); Fiscal Year 2028: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
• Keywords: Human-AI Cooperation / Social Network Analysis / AI Experiments / Cooperative Behavior / Social Dilemmas

Outline of Research at the Start

The project explores how human cooperation evolves through interactions with AI, using social network analysis and innovative AI-driven experiments. It aims to uncover cooperative mechanisms in human-AI mixed settings, assess AI’s influence on social networks, and build a comprehensive theory to inform future human-machine societal integration.