In today’s increasingly digitalized society, interactions between humans and artificial agents are becoming ever more frequent and complex. These interactions have the potential to significantly enhance human experiences, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and efficiency. However, they can also lead to frustration and pose severe threats to human dignity and autonomy. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents take on roles as advisors, delegates, and cooperative partners, we face a critical need to understand how these roles are accepted within our emerging hybrid societies.

The current state of knowledge regarding the rules that govern human-AI interactions, and the moral, ethical, and social implications of these interactions, is still limited. One of the central challenges is to determine the key ingredients that AI agents need to possess—or be perceived to possess—to be accepted as integral parts of our socio-ecological environment. How do different types of AI agents, whether humanoid robots or large language models (LLMs), influence the dynamics of human-AI interactions? To what extent should AI follow human rules, and are such rules adequate to sustain cooperation in these hybrid environments?

This panel brings together scholars from fields intersecting psychology, economics, philosophy and computer science to explore these questions from a multidisciplinary and critical perspective. We aim to discuss some of the latest research on these topics, fostering scientific debates that will help us better understand the cooperative potential of AI and the socio-psychological implications of its integration into human society. This panel is an invitation to explore the frontier of cooperative AI, its challenges, and its opportunities, ensuring that we harness the power of AI in ways that respect and enhance human values and societal well-being.

Panel organizers:

Eugenia Polizzi, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR

Costanza Alfieri, Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L’Aquila

Invited Panelists:

Jean Francois Bonnefon, Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse

Ophelia Deroy, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Donatella Donati, Università dell’Aquila

Niccolò Pescetelli, London Interdisciplinary School

The panel will take place on June 13th during the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2025 conference, HHAI 2025 Conference Pisa ITALY,