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Dean Eckles Signs on to Section 230 Amicus Brief

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and six technologists with expertise in online recommendation systems in December filed an amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google. The brief urges the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to hold that Section 230’s liability shield applies to claims against interactive computer service providers like Twitter, based on their recommendation of […]

Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires

Sinan Aral on Yahoo!Finance: What ChatGPT Means for Microsoft, Google

“Google is calling big names back to the company to talk about it, to think about strategy… And there’s a good reason for that,” MIT IDE Director, Sinan Aral told Yahoo!Finance on January 25. “ChatGPT is potentially an existential threat to Google’s business” because 60% of its revenue is from search. “ChatGPT offers an alternative […]

All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big With Artificial Intelligence

New book by IDE fellow, Tom Davenport, and head of Deloitte’s AI business Nitin Mittal, provides a guide for business leaders to transform their organizations by fully embracing artificial intelligence “All-In on AI” examines how extensive AI adoption offers a distinct competitive advantage to companies across a wide variety of industries. Widespread AI adoption is no longer merely […]

Measure Your Online Misinformation Exposure

Most of us are aware that misinformation and fake news abound online and offline. Usually, however, we think of it as a problem for a small portion of the population. Aren’t we too sophisticated and well-informed not to recognize truth from fiction; political rhetoric from facts? Perhaps, not. David Rand, MIT IDE research group lead […]

Learning to Love GPT: Video of Andrew McAfee at DLD23

MIT IDE co-director, Andrew McAfee (pictured) and Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson discuss The E.U./U.S. Tech Gap—and much more– with panel moderator Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist At DLD23 Munich, held January 12 -14, book co-authors McAfee and Brynjolfsson exchanged ideas about AI– especially the capabilities of Chat GPT. Watch the lively session and […]

A 2 Million-person, Campaign-wide Field Experiment Shows How Digital Advertising Affects Voter Turnout

Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues

It is widely assumed that party identification and loyalty can distort partisans’ information processing, diminishing their receptivity to counter-partisan arguments and evidence. Here we empirically evaluate this assumption. We test whether American partisans’ receptivity to arguments and evidence is diminished by countervailing cues from in-party leaders (Donald Trump or Joe Biden), using a large-scale survey […]