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Defining AI in Policy versus Practice
P. M. Krafft, Meg Young, Michael Katell +2
Recent concern about harms of information technologies motivate consideration of regulatory action to forestall or constrain certain developments in the field of artificial intelli…
An Algorithmic Equity Toolkit for Technology Audits by Community Advocates and Activists
Michael Katell, Meg Young, Bernease Herman +6
A wave of recent scholarship documenting the discriminatory harms of algorithmic systems has spurred widespread interest in algorithmic accountability and regulation. Yet effective…
An Experimental Study of Cryptocurrency Market Dynamics
Peter M Krafft, Nicolás Della Penna, Alex Pentland
As cryptocurrencies gain popularity and credibility, marketplaces for cryptocurrencies are growing in importance. Understanding the dynamics of these markets can help to assess how…
Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics
Peter M Krafft, Michael Macy, Alex Pentland
The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool…
Inferring Population Preferences via Mixtures of Spatial Voting Models
Alison Nahm, Alex Pentland, Peter Krafft
Understanding political phenomena requires measuring the political preferences of society. We introduce a model based on mixtures of spatial voting models that infers the underlyin…
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
Peter M. Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan +5
Collective intelligence is believed to underly the remarkable success of human society. The formation of accurate shared beliefs is one of the key components of human collective in…