We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC! If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

Excited to share this work, joint w/ many great collaborators, on the simulation environment we built to study the "Agentic Economy" and what we learned along the way. - GitHub: lnkd.in/dNRmhB5B - Blog: lnkd.in/dRzYQKpU - Tech report: lnkd.in/diTH4V5W - Broader thoughts: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799

🚨The Agentic Economy🚨 new paper w/ 9 co-authors: what happens to economy with expanded agent use for both consumers & businesses? The architecture of agentic communication will determine extent to which generative AI democratizes (or restricts) access to economic opportunity arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799

NYC undergrads: still one more day to apply for this year's Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh

Check out ChatBench, our new paper+dataset. We turned AI benchmarks into user-AI chats and show that AI-alone evals often fail to predict how real humans perform with AI. @serinachang5.bsky.social @ashtonanderson.bsky.social serinachang5.github.io/assets/files... huggingface.co/datasets/mic...

Attention NYC undergrads: Applications are open for our 12th annual Data Science Summer school at Microsoft Research NYC! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh

Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain