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IDE researchers publish their findings and work in highly respected academic journals.

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The Economic Impact of Generative AI

Jan, 2024

Andrew McAfee | Co-Director & Technology-Driven Organizations and Digital Culture Research Group Lead

Research Papers Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization

Apr 2024

Sinan Aral | Director and Generative AI and Decentralization Research Group Lead

David Holtz | Research Affiliate

Felipe Lobel

Ruben Lobel

Inessa Liskovich

Research Papers Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms

Mar 2024

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Building a Distributed Economy Research Group Lead

Lily L. Tsai

Alia Braley

Nuole Chen

José Ramón Enríquez

Anka Reuel

Research Papers Infrequent Activities Predict Economic Outcomes in Major American Cities

Mar 2024

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Building a Distributed Economy Research Group Lead

Research Papers The Grand Illusion: The Myth of Software Portability and Implications for ML Progress

Feb 2024

Neil Thompson | Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and Beyond Research Group Lead

Fraser Mince

Dzung Dinh

Jonas Kgomo

Sara Hooker

Research Papers How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm

Dec 2023

Marshall Van Alstyne | Digital Fellow

Seth Benzell | Digital Fellow

Jonathan Hersh

Research Papers The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News

Oct 2023

Christian Peukert

Ananya Sen

Jörg Claussen

Research Papers How to Think about Whether Misinformation Interventions Work

Aug 2023

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Research Papers Human Favoritism, Not AI Aversion: People’s Perceptions (and Bias) Toward Generative AI, Human Experts, and Human-GAI Collaboration in Persuasive Content Generation

Jul 2023

Renée Richardson Gosline | Human-First AI Research Group Lead

Yunhao Zhang

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