Much of the research in AI is devoted to create systems that perform tasks or functions for which we think humans need intelligence. Famous are things like playing chess or go, but classification and decision making are also among the popular ones. However, most of these endeavours are geared towards solving a problem and/or optimizing a solution individually. In real life intelligent behaviour is determined by our relationships and interactions with other people.
The consequences of taking this serious for AI research are twofold. If we try to understand human intelligence through computational systems, we should focus more attention towards the social aspects of intelligence. Secondly, for AI systems to function more autonomous in a human context they should be aware of the social aspects of intelligence in order to have better interactions with humans (and thus better perform heir tasks).
I will talk a bit about both aspects and the repercussions for AI research.