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Private Noise and Public Error in Collective Information Acquisition
Mohammad Salahshour, Sumanth Bhargava, Kajal Kumari +4
Collective information acquisition requires groups to combine personal evidence with social information while remaining coupled to the external state. Communication noise can affec…
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…
A new sociology of humans and machines
Milena Tsvetkova, Taha Yasseri, Niccolo Pescetelli +1
From fake social media accounts and generative artificial intelligence chatbots to trading algorithms and self-driving vehicles, robots, bots and algorithms are proliferating and p…
The Network Limits of Infectious Disease Control via Occupation-Based Targeting
Demetris Avraam, Nick Obradovich, Niccoló Pescetelli +2
Policymakers commonly employ non-pharmaceutical interventions to manage the scale and severity of pandemics. Of non-pharmaceutical interventions, social distancing policies -- desi…
Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar +6
The "small world phenomenon," popularized by Stanley Milgram, suggests that individuals from across a social network are connected via a short path of mutual friends and can levera…