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Social physics in the age of artificial intelligence
The Anh Han, Joel Z. Leibo, Tom Lenaerts +4
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly becoming more capable, autonomous, and deeply embedded in social life. As humans increasingly interact, cooperate, and compete with…
Dynamics of Algorithmic Content Amplification on TikTok
Fabian Baumann, Nipun Arora, Iyad Rahwan +1
Intelligent algorithms increasingly shape the content we encounter and engage with online. TikTok's For You feed exemplifies extreme algorithm-driven curation, tailoring the stream…
Mutual benefits of social learning and algorithmic mediation for cumulative culture
Agnieszka Czaplicka, Fabian Baumann, Iyad Rahwan
The remarkable ecological success of humans is often attributed to our ability to develop complex cultural artefacts that enable us to cope with environmental challenges. The evolu…
Network Structure shapes the Impact of Diversity in Collective Learning
Fabian Baumann, Agnieszka Czaplicka, Iyad Rahwan
It is widely believed that diversity arising from different skills enhances the performance of teams, and in particular, their ability to learn and innovate. However, diversity has…
Impossible by Conventional Means: Ten Years on from the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Inho Hong +1
Ten years ago, DARPA launched the 'Network Challenge', more commonly known as the 'DARPA Red Balloon Challenge'. Ten red weather balloons were fixed at unknown locations in the US.…
A common trajectory recapitulated by urban economies
Inho Hong, Morgan R. Frank, Iyad Rahwan +2
Is there a general economic pathway recapitulated by individual cities over and over? Identifying such evolution structure, if any, would inform models for the assessment, maintena…
Inferring Mechanisms for Global Constitutional Progress
Alex Rutherford, Yonatan Lupu, Manuel Cebrian +3
Constitutions help define domestic political orders, but are known to be influenced by two international mechanisms: one that reflects global temporal trends in legal development,…
Limits of Friendship Networks in Predicting Epidemic Risk
Lorenzo Coviello, Massimo Franceschetti, Manuel Garcia-Herranz +1
The spread of an infection on a real-world social network is determined by the interplay of two processes: the dynamics of the network, whose structure changes over time according…
Corruption Drives the Emergence of Civil Society
Sherief Abdallah, Rasha Sayed, Iyad Rahwan +4
Peer punishment of free-riders (defectors) is a key mechanism for promoting cooperation in society. However, it is highly unstable since some cooperators may contribute to a common…
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…