{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Human-AI Coevolution (Abstract Reprint)","authors":[{"name":"Dino Pedreschi","slug":"dino-pedreschi","given":"Dino","family":"Pedreschi","affiliation":""},{"name":"Luca Pappalardo","slug":"luca-pappalardo","given":"Luca","family":"Pappalardo","affiliation":""},{"name":"Emanuele Ferragina","slug":"emanuele-ferragina","given":"Emanuele","family":"Ferragina","affiliation":""},{"name":"Ricardo Baeza-Yates","slug":"ricardo-baeza-yates","given":"Ricardo","family":"Baeza-Yates","affiliation":""},{"name":"Albert-László Barabási","slug":"albert-laszlo-barabasi","given":"Albert-László","family":"Barabási","affiliation":""},{"name":"Frank Dignum","slug":"frank-dignum","given":"Frank","family":"Dignum","affiliation":""},{"name":"Virginia Dignum","slug":"virginia-dignum","given":"Virginia","family":"Dignum","affiliation":""},{"name":"Tina Eliassi-Rad","slug":"tina-eliassi-rad","given":"Tina","family":"Eliassi-Rad","affiliation":""},{"name":"Fosca Giannotti","slug":"fosca-giannotti","given":"Fosca","family":"Giannotti","affiliation":""},{"name":"János Kertész","slug":"janos-kertesz","given":"János","family":"Kertész","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alistair Knott","slug":"alistair-knott","given":"Alistair","family":"Knott","affiliation":""},{"name":"Yannis Ioannidis","slug":"yannis-ioannidis","given":"Yannis","family":"Ioannidis","affiliation":""},{"name":"Paul Lukowicz","slug":"paul-lukowicz","given":"Paul","family":"Lukowicz","affiliation":""},{"name":"Andrea Passarella","slug":"andrea-passarella","given":"Andrea","family":"Passarella","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alex Sandy Pentland","slug":"alex-sandy-pentland","given":"Alex `Sandy'","family":"Pentland","affiliation":""},{"name":"John Shawe-Taylor","slug":"john-shawe-taylor","given":"John","family":"Shawe-Taylor","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alessandro Vespignani","slug":"alessandro-vespignani","given":"Alessandro","family":"Vespignani","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Human-AI coevolution, defined as a process in which humans and AI algorithms continuously influence each other, increasingly characterises our society, but is understudied in artificial intelligence and complexity science literature. Recommender systems and assistants play a prominent role in human-AI coevolution, as they permeate many facets of daily life and influence human choices through online platforms. The interaction between users and AI results in a potentially endless feedback loop, wherein users' choices generate data to train AI models, which, in turn, shape subsequent user preferences. This human-AI feedback loop has peculiar characteristics compared to traditional human-machine interaction and gives rise to complex and often “unintended” systemic outcomes. This paper introduces human-AI coevolution as the cornerstone for a new field of study at the intersection between AI and complexity science focused on the theoretical, empirical, and mathematical investigation of the human-AI feedback loop. In doing so, we: (i) outline the pros and cons of existing methodologies and highlight shortcomings and potential ways for capturing feedback loop mechanisms; (ii) propose a reflection at the intersection between complexity science, AI and society; (iii) provide real-world examples for different human-AI ecosystems; and (iv) illustrate challenges to the creation of such a field of study, conceptualising them at increasing levels of abstraction, i.e., scientific, legal and socio-political.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2025/1231","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1231","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1231.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/1231.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/bibtex/1231","volume":{"slug":"2025","title":"Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2025","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2025/","year":2025,"location":"Montreal, Canada","dates":"16-22 August 2025","editors":"James Kwok","isbn":"978-1-956792-06-5","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2025"},"section":"Journal Track","track":"Journal Track","number":1231,"pages":{"first":10957,"last":10957},"keywords":["IJCAI: Journal Track"],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}