Hirokazu Shirado
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About
Hirokazu Shirado is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of social science and artificial intelligence, whose work explores how machine intelligence can shape—and sometimes disrupt—human cooperation. His research spans two seemingly distinct domains: the development of lifelike artificial skin for robotics and tactile sensing, and the study of human-AI collective behavior. In his early career, Shirado made notable contributions to robotics by engineering artificial skin that mimics human texture through precise emulation of surface shape patterns and elastic structures, with papers like "Development of Artificial Skin Having Human Skin-like Texture" (2007, 16 citations) laying groundwork for tactile evaluation systems and human-robot physical interaction. More recently, his groundbreaking study "Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans" (2023, 14 citations) has garnered significant attention for revealing how AI agents can paradoxically suppress beneficial social norms in collective action problems. This interdisciplinary work, bridging social and computer sciences, demonstrates Shirado’s unique ability to tackle fundamental questions about cooperation in mixed human-machine groups. His research offers critical insights for designing AI that supports, rather than undermines, human collaboration.
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