Workday Professor of Technology & Society

Taha Yasseri is the Workday Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin. He directs the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin. He was a Professor and the Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College, Oxford. Taha Yasseri has a PhD in Complex Systems Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany. He has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data and conducting behavioural experiments to understand human dynamics, machines’ social behaviour, government-society interactions, online political behaviour, mass collaboration and collective intelligence, information and opinion dynamics, hate speech and content moderation, collective behaviour, and online dating.

Teaching
AI and Society: This module explores the impact of artificial intelligence on society, critically analysing its ethical, policy, and governance implications. Students will examine issues such as bias and fairness, automation and labour, privacy, misinformation, and human-AI collaboration. Through interdisciplinary discussions, they will develop a nuanced understanding of AI’s societal challenges and opportunities. The module also introduces students to the technical aspects of AI at an introductory level.