The Science of Teamwork

By collaborating with others, humans can achieve goals that would be beyond the reach of a single person: No one can play a symphony, build a city, or land on the moon entirely on their own. This seminar will take a multidisciplinary view to understand how humans collaborate, including examining how the capacity to collaborate develops in childhood, when teams outperform individuals, what we can learn about human collaboration from multi-agent AI, and how we can apply insights from the social science of teamwork to make scientific collaborations smoother and fairer.