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Author: J. Nathan Matias

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Incident Reporting Beyond Frontier Models

October 2026

As more efficient and capable AI models are given more power and autonomy in the world in the form of […]

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The HAB Challenge: Tending our Human Algorithm Ecosystems

September 2026

How does human behavior change in the presence of AI systems that interact with large groups of people at scale? […]

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New Studies: How Commercial Forces Make Science Less Reliable

July 2026

When people seek guidance from science, it’s often in search of imaginative possibilities with almost-boring reliability. And one evening in […]

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Bridging the Wikimedia Movement and Computational Social Science

June 2026

How can scientists support the global movement for access to knowledge while also making discoveries about our social world?  This […]

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Growing the Fires of Imagination at the Radcliffe Institute Next Year

May 2026

I have good news to share; I’ve been selected for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at […]

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Discovering our Collective Potential with the Science of Wikipedia

March 2026

This weekend, Sarah Gilbert and I were honored to give a plenary talk at Wikipedia Day NYC, a celebration of […]

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How can Public Involvement Improve the Science of AI? New in PNAS

November 2025

In the spring of 2024, the California Nurses Association picketed outside Kaiser San Francisco Medical center to draw attention to […]

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Event: Standards of Evidence in Technology Litigation

October 2025

Amid growing public demands for greater accountability from technology companies, the public has turned to scientists to be arbiters of […]

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Protecting Fundamental Rights with the Science of Civil Liberties

July 2025

When leaders of a large immigrant church in Boston stood in front of their congregation on January 26, they noticed […]

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Studying & Stewarding Digital Environments with Participatory Science

June 2025

Participatory/community/citizen science has transformed how scientists think about discovery, re-orienting the scientific endeavor toward collaboration with the people of the […]

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