Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone. We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔔 Often our tech policy interventions operate from linear, top-down assumptions that don't account for the complexity they seek to govern. To dig into this I'm co-organizing a workshop at ACM CI 2025 with Jason Burton, Joe Bak-Coleman, + Naomi Shiffman. You should come! ci-x-tp.github.io

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

🚨 Workshop update 🚨 We're excited to announce that @naomishiffman.bsky.social will be joining to share her experience with designing and passing implementable tech policy. Our half-day agenda is up (ci-x-tp.github.io) and early registration for @acmci.bsky.social ends on 23 June — don’t miss out!

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

🚨New podcast episode!!🚨 Ralph Hertwig calls for a shift from nudging to boosting—empowering people with the skills to make informed decisions. It’s a transparent way to strengthen agency in the face of challenges like misinformation, climate change, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9r-...

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

I'm excited that I can finally share what I've been working on for the past 9 months: The United Nations 2025 Human Development Report: "A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI" 🧵 hdr.undp.org/content/huma...

Another example of why we need a new approach to address the ethics of social media experiments www.nature.com/articles/s44... @vincentjstraub.bsky.social

🚨🤖👥 Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs" April 24 5-6pm CET www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina... Register nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Speakers: - Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School - Lucie Flek, University of Bonn - Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

🚨 UPCOMING EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, April 10-11 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. In collaboration with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org & co-sponsored by the Knight Institute and @columbiaseas.bsky.social. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

Revised ethical guidelines for social media experiments have not stuck. A participatory governance approach, akin to developments in AI, can improve practices & align the interests of researchers, platforms & users. @vincentjstraub.bsky.social @jasonburton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Endlessly reading news, but can’t recall details of it later? Worried you rely on the internet/your phone to store things instead of your brain? Me too. I explored for @nature.com whether the internet (and AI) is worsening human memory, according to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/3

🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

There's been lots of speculation about potential societal impacts of LLMs 🌍 In a new Nature Human Behaviour (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) article, I and 27 researchers argue that we should be thinking about those impacts through the lens of collective intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academics! Where do you prefer or hope to publish? Have a few minute to tell us? My group at CU Boulder is surveying the publication preferences of academics in a pairwise comparison survey called Publish or Comparish. → tinyurl.com/PubPrefs Thanks for considering & pls share with colleagues!

Are social media algorithms affecting the beliefs people form? Can we design prosocial algorithms to promote belief accuracy and consensus?   Check out my recent work w/ @stefanherzog.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social for new evidence from a controlled, pre-reg'd experiment.   bit.ly/4bL1AOZ

Join us at this year's EADM summer school at the MPI for Human Development, Sep 9-13, with keynotes from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Gaël Le Mens, @chiaralongoni.bsky.social and talks from Laura Weidinger, @jasonburton.bsky.social, @zoepurcell.bsky.social, and Nils Köbis!

NEW ESSAY: In Algorithmic Amplification for Collective Intelligence, Jason W. Burton posits that the promise of democratized social media has largely gone unrealized, and suggests how to design & evaluate algorithms to enhance deliberation online. Read here: knightcolumbia.org/content/algo...