Generative AI and Decentralization

Identifying, testing and validating designs and approaches to Web3 that ensure an inclusive and prosperous Internet future. IDE Director, Sinan Aral, leads this research group.

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Teaching AI to Handle Exceptions: Supervised Fine-Tuning with Human-Aligned Judgment

May 2025

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

Harang Ju | Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo

Working Papers Advancing AI Negotiations: New Theory and Evidence from a Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiations Competition

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

Harang Ju | Postdoctoral Associate

Michael Caosun | Ph.D. Candidate

Michelle Vaccaro, Jared R. Curhan

Working Papers Complementarity Between Paid and Organic Installs in Mobile App Advertising

Harang Ju | Postdoctoral Associate

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

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

Mar 2025

Harang Ju | Postdoctoral Associate

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

Research article Understanding the Returns From Integrated Enterprise Systems: The Impacts of Agile and Phased Implementation Strategies

Jun 2024

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

Erik Brynjolfsson

Chris Gu

Hongchang Wang

DJ Wu

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

Apr 2024

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

David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Felipe Lobel

Ruben Lobel

Inessa Liskovich

Special Reports 2023 Social Media Summit (SMS@MIT) Event Report

Jun 2023

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

Access and download the 2023 SMS@MIT Event Report HERE.

Research Papers Providing Normative Information Increases Intentions to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine

Jan 2023

Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow

Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

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

Alex Moehring

Kiran Garimella

M. Amin Rahimian

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