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Michiel Bakker is an AI safety researcher and computational social scientist focusing on AI alignment, societal impacts of AI, and AI’s role in human-human and human-computer interaction. He is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and affiliated with MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems & Society and the MIT Center for Constructive Communication based at the MIT Media Lab. Michiel is also a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. He holds a Master’s and PhD degree in computer science from MIT, and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in physics from Delft University of Technology.

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"Scaffolding Cooperation in Human Groups with Deep Reinforcement Learning."

McKee, Kevin R., Andrea Tacchetti, Michiel A. Bakker, Jan Balaguer, Lucy Campbell-Gillingham, Richard Everett, and Matthew Botvinick. Nature Human Behavior Vol. 10, (2023): 1787-1796.

"Fine-tuning Language Models to Find Agreement Among Humans with Diverse Preferences."

Michiel A. Bakker, Martin J. Chadwick, Hannah R. Sheahan, Michael Henry Tessler, Lucy Campbell-Gillingham, Jan Balaguer, Nat McAleese, Amelia Glaese, John Aslanides, Matthew M. Botvinick, and Christopher Summerfield. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, LA: November 2022.

"Quantifying the Importance and Location of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Events in Large Metropolitan Areas."

Aleta, Alberto, David Martín-Corral, Michiel A. Bakker, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E. Dean, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno, and Esteban Moro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 119, No. 26 (2022): e211218211.

"Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Improving Fairness in Budget-Constrained Decision Making using Confidence Thresholds."

Michiel A. Bakker, Duy Patrick Tu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alex Pentland, Kush R. Varshney, and Adrian Weller. In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, July 2021.

"Modelling Cooperation in Network Games with Spatio-Temporal Complexity."

Michiel A. Bakker, Richard Everett, Laura Weidinger, Iason Gabriel, William S. Isaac, and Joel Z. Leibo. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, May 2021.

"Fair Enough: Improving Fairness in Budget-Constrained Decision Making Using Confidence Thresholds Safe AI."

Michiel A. Bakker, Humberto Riverón Valdés, Duy Patrick Tu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Kush R. Varshney, Adrian Weller, and Alex Pentland. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety, AAAI 2020, edited by Krishna P. Gummadi. New York, USA: February 2020. Download Paper.

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