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Advancing AI negotiations: A large-scale autonomous negotiation competition

Jun, 2026

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

White Paper Transparency by Design for Large Language Models

May 2023

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Robert Mahari

Tobin South

Research Papers Why Voters Who Value Democracy Participate in Democratic Backsliding

May 2023

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Research Papers Displaying News Source Trustworthiness Ratings Reduces Sharing Intentions for False News Posts

Apr 2023

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Research Papers Behavioral Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic Decreased Income Diversity of Urban Encounters

Apr 2023

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Professor, MIT Media Lab

Research Papers What Makes News Sharable on Social Media?

Apr 2023

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Xi Chen, MIT

Gordon Pennycook

Research Papers Do Incentives to Review Help the Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Airbnb

Apr 2023

Andrey Fradkin | Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School

Research Papers Sincere or Motivated? Partisan Bias in Advice-taking

Apr 2023

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Yunhao Zhang

Research Papers Unselfish Traits and Social Decision-making Patterns

Mar 2023

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

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