Conference Agenda

Session

Generative AI meets Agent-based modelling

Time:

Thursday, 27/Aug/2026:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Peer-Olaf Siebers

Location: Calman CLC013

Arnold Wolfendale lecture theatre, ground floor (400)

Presentations

11:30am - 11:45am

LLMs in Networked Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

Stephen Davies

University of Mary Washington, United States of America

11:45am - 12:05pm

Generative AI as an interaction intermediary: modeling how AI-mediated interaction changes collaboration, trust, and social learning

Yakup Turgut

Kirklareli University, Turkey (Türkiye)

12:05pm - 12:25pm

Do AI agents make social simulation more realistic?

David Anzola

University College Dublin, Ireland

12:25pm - 12:45pm

Return of the Mind Snatchers: on the Pitfalls of Using LLMs for Social Simulation

Harko Verhagen¹, Anandi Hattiangadi^2,3, Nanda Wijermans⁴

¹Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm; ²Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; ³Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden; ⁴Stockhom resilience Center, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden