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No other species possesses a social intelligence quite like that of humans. Our ability to understand one another’s minds and actions, and to interact with one another in rich and complex ways, is the basis for much of our success, from governments to symphonies to the scientific enterprise. This course will discuss the principles of human social cognition, how we can use machine learning and AI models to computationally capture these principles, how these principles can help us build human-level machine social intelligence, and how social intelligence can enable the engineering of AI systems that can understand and interact with humans safely and productively in real-world settings. In this seminar course, we will read and discuss literature that cover diverse topics on social intelligence in humans and machines. These include (but are not limited to) social perception, Theory of Mind, multi-agent planning, multi-agent communication, social learning, human-AI teaming, moral judgment, and value alignment. Required Course Background: Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, and Calculus; 601.475/675 Machine Learning or EN.601.464/664 Artificial Intelligence or equivalent.