Publications (70)
Social media fingerprints of unemployment
Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian +1
Recent wide-spread adoption of electronic and pervasive technologies has enabled the study of human behavior at an unprecedented level, uncovering universal patterns underlying hum…
Targeted Social Mobilisation in a Global Manhunt
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan +8
Social mobilization, the ability to mobilize large numbers of people via social networks to achieve highly distributed tasks, has received significant attention in recent times. Th…
Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
Manuel Alfonseca, Manuel Cebrian, Antonio Fernandez Anta +3
Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intel…
Supervision policies can shape long-term risk management in general-purpose AI models
Manuel Cebrian, Emilia Gomez, David Fernandez Llorca
The rapid proliferation and deployment of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models, including large language models (LLMs), present unprecedented challenges for AI supervisory entities. We…
Mobilizing Waldo: Evaluating Multimodal AI for Public Mobilization
Manuel Cebrian, Petter Holme, Niccolo Pescetelli
Advancements in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4o, offer significant potential for mediating human interactions across various contexts. However, the…
Automation Impacts on China's Polarized Job Market
Haohui 'Caron' Chen, Xun Li, Morgan Frank +4
When facing threats from automation, a worker residing in a large Chinese city might not be as lucky as a worker in a large U.S. city, depending on the type of large city in which…