Cities are complex living systems where people, places, and technologies interact through dynamic networks of mobility, communication, and exchange. The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from large-scale automation and algorithmic management to generative and agentic AI systems, is fundamentally reshaping urban networks. Employment relations, commuting behaviors, social interactions, and even collective decision-making are increasingly mediated by AI, giving rise to new patterns of connectivity, inequality, and adaptation.

Key questions include: 

• How is AI reshaping urban social networks, access to opportunity, and the distribution of social capital? 

• What new feedback loops and interdependencies emerge when human decisions and algorithmic systems co-evolve within urban networks?

• How can network science guide the governance and design of equitable, adaptive, and human-centered cities in the age of AI?

Please join us in Boston, Massachusetts this June for “Urban Networks in the Age of AI,” a half-day satellite session at NetSci 2026. We invite researchers to share work on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping cities through evolving networks of mobility, employment, communication, and governance. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers.

Fill out our interest form to help us tailor the program!