Seminar: AI and Sociological Implications
Date & Time: Friday, 10 October 2025, 2:00 – 4:30 PM SGT (seminar time 2.00 – 3.30 pm SGT | tea and refreshment provided after talk)
Venue: SHHK Building, Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10), NTU
Speaker: Asst. Prof. Nilanjan Raghunath (SUTD)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming societies, economies, and everyday life. While much of the current debate focuses on technological innovation, efficiency, and productivity, sociology asks different but equally urgent questions: How does AI reshape power, authority, and trust in institutions? What does it mean for inequality, work, and social capital? And how do different groups across age, class, gender, and location experience, resist, or embrace AI differently?
This talk addresses these questions through a sociological lens, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges AI presents. These questions require a reconsideration of long-standing sociological concepts such as expertise, information, and knowledge, as well as new thinking about the role of status, reputation, and trust in human–AI collaboration.