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Publications

At the IDE, research and data-based evidence underlie all that we do. Explore the cutting-edge academic papers, featured in leading publications around the globe.

 

Research Papers Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi Study of 272 International Experts

Alexander K. Saeri

Jess Graham

Michael Noetel, et al.

 

This paper reports results from a three-round Delphi study conducted late 2025 with 272 international AI experts who rated 24 AI risks on harm probability and severity, sector and actor vulnerability, actor responsibility, and overall concern.

Working Papers General Social Agents

Useful social science theories predict behavior across settings. However, applying a theory to make predictions in new settings is challenging: rarely can it be done without ad hoc modifications to account for setting-specific factors. We argue that AI agents put in simulations of those novel settings offer an alternative for applying theory, requiring minimal or no modifications.

Research Papers Advancing AI negotiations: A large-scale autonomous negotiation competition

Michelle Vaccaro

Michael Caosun

Jared R. Curhan

 

This research reveals that principles from human negotiation theory remain crucial even in AI–AI contexts and that AI-specific technical strategies also create success. The results suggest the need to establish a new theory of AI negotiation that integrates classic negotiation theory with AI-specific negotiation theories to better understand autonomous negotiations and optimize agent performance.

Working Papers Is there “Secret Sauce” in Large Language Model Development?

Natalia Fischl-Lanzoni

 

Do leading LLM developers possess a proprietary “secret sauce,” or is LLM performance driven by scaling up compute? Using training and benchmark data for 809 models released between 2022 and 2025, the authors estimate scaling-law regressions with release-date and developer fixed effects.