Humans and Machines
The Center for Humans & Machines conducts interdisciplinary science, to understand, anticipate, and shape major disruptions from digital media and Artificial Intelligence to the way we think, learn, work, play, cooperate and govern.
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Canonical Papers
Machine Culture
The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. We explore the notion of ‘machine culture’, culture mediated or generated by machines . . . Read more.
Machine Behavior
Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behavior of artificial intelligence systems is essential . . . Read more.
The Moral Machine Experiment
Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents. But some inevitable accidents will require AVs to make tradeoffs . . . Read more.
Bad Machines Corrupt Good Morals
As machines powered by AI influence humans’ behavior in ways that are both like and unlike the ways humans influence each other, worry emerges about the corrupting power of AI agents . . . Read more.
Cooperating with Machines
We develop state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms that cooperate with people and other machines at levels that rival human cooperation in two-player repeated games . . . Read more.
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