Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social & Natural Science Departments of Sociolgy statistics and Data Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Yale University, USA, and Nikos Kyprides, Head, Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Super Program, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Labolatory, Department of Energy at Berkeley, USA, discuss about "Understanding human social networks by deciphering microbial interactions with AI tools".