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As IDE scholars' projects progress, they share early-stage research through working papers that offer insights into their findings and methodology.

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Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance

Mar, 2025

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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

Working Papers Combating Misinformation: A Megastudy of Nine Interventions

Jun 2024

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Lisa K. Fazio

Stephan Lewandowsky

Mark Susmann

Adam Berinsky

Andrew Guess

Panayiota Kendeou

Ben Lyons

Joanne Miller

Eryn Newman

Gordon Pennycook

Briony Swire Thompson

Working Papers Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI

May 2024

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL

Sebastian Sartor

Working Papers Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and Vaccine-Skeptical Content on Facebook

May 2024

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Duncan J. Watts

Working Papers Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues with AI

Apr 2024

David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Thomas H. Costello

Gordon Pennycook

Working Papers Automated Social Science: A Structural Causal Model-Based Approach

Mar 2024

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Benjamin S. Manning

Kehang Zhu

Working Papers Causal Inference for Human-Language Model Collaboration

Mar 2024

Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

Bohan Zhang

Yixin Wang

Working Papers More, but Worse: The Impact of AI Writing Assistance on the Supply and Quality of Job Posts

Mar 2024

John Horton | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Emma Wiles

Working Papers Algorithmic Progress in Language Models

Mar 2024

Neil Thompson | Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL

Anson Ho, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil, David Owen
Robi Rahman, Zifan Carl Guo, David Atkinson, Jaime Sevilla

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