5 papers
From Critical Transitions to Sustainability Transformations: Phenomena, Theory, and Applications Across Disciplines
Elisabeth H. Krueger, Koustav Halder, Woi Oh +17
There has been a recent surge in the use of terms describing systemic change processes across science, policy, and public debate. The associated change phenomena are often assumed…
Indirect tipping: a social attack surface in AI agent populations
Ariel Flint, Luca Maria Aiello, Sara M. Constantino +2
As generative AI agents are deployed at scale, safety will depend not only on technical safeguards and individual model design, but also on collective equilibria that determine how…
From risk to flourishing: Seeds for responding to a complex world
Ryan M. McGranaghan, Elisabeth H. Krueger, Alexandre Dunant +6
Complex risk arises when interacting hazards, infrastructures, ecological systems, institutions, and human behaviors produce nonlinear impacts that cannot be inferred from any comp…
Policy, Risk, and Norms Shape Collective Behaviors Worldwide
Dhruv Mittal, Sara M. Constantino, Simon A. Levin +3
Societal responses to environmental change vary widely, even under comparable shocks, reflecting differences in both policy measures and public reactions shaped by cultural and soc…
Targeted incentives for social tipping in heterogeneous networked populations
Dhruv Mittal, Fátima González-Novo López, Sara Constantino +3
Many societal challenges, such as climate change or disease outbreaks, require coordinated behavioral changes. For many behaviors, the tendency of individuals to adhere to social n…