Michiel Bakker
Assistant professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor in Contemporary Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management and senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Holds a PhD in computer science from MIT and physics degrees from Delft University of Technology. Works on AI alignment, societal impacts of AI, and AI in human interaction. Co-author of 'AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation' (Science, 2024), a study of an LLM-based mediation system tested with thousands of UK participants, and of 'How large language models can reshape collective intelligence' (Nature Human Behaviour, 2024). Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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15 works in the co-authorship map · 1,019 citations across them
Sources
- Michiel Anton Bakker — MIT Sloan faculty directory
- AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source
In the network
10 co-authors on the map · PageRank #41 of 400 · bridge #30 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Computational social science.
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Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI widen inequality? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Should governments act on AI now? leans agree
Argues Europe needs an AGI preparedness plan — institutional action ahead of capability arrival.
How fast will the impact arrive? leans agree
Treats AGI-level capabilities as plausible enough on near horizons to require preparedness planning today.
Selected work
- AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
- How large language models can reshape collective intelligence
- Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences
Writes with
Alex Pentland (4), César A. Hidalgo (3), Kevin Hu (3), Alessandro Vespignani (1), Arvind Narayanan (1), Deb Roy (1), Esteban Moro (1), Lucia Velasco (1), Maksym Andriushchenko (1), Sayash Kapoor (1)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (10 of 10 shown).
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