Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
David Austin Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Co-author of 'The Spread of True and False News Online' (Science, 2018) and of 'Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities' (Science, 2020). Author of a 2020 book on how social media affects elections, economies, and public health. Research includes field experiments on human-AI teamwork and productivity. PhD from MIT. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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17 works in the co-authorship map · 14,352 citations across them
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In the network
15 co-authors on the map · PageRank #18 of 400 · bridge #14 of 400 · 1 step from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Platforms, startups and experiments.
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Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? it's complicated
His experiments find real AI collaboration gains but also an 'augmentation trap': cognitive offloading that undermines performance.
Evidence
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? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
How fast will the impact arrive? unknown
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Selected work
- The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
- The spread of true and false news online
- Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance
Writes with
Alex Moehring (4), Avinash Collis (4), Dean Eckles (4), M. Amin Rahimian (4), Kiran Garimella (3), Christos Nicolaides (2), Alessandro Vespignani (1), Alex Pentland (1), David Holtz (1), Deb Roy (1), Erik Brynjolfsson (1), Lynn Wu (1)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (12 of 15 shown).
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