Skip to main content ☀️ 🌙 Back to home Research areas Three broad areas connect my papers, public writing, talks, and projects. Each contains three focused research topics; all are working arguments, not keyword buckets. Browse all indexed objects Data, Value, and Bargaining Who supplies AI’s inputs, who captures the value, and how people can bargain. Data as Labor Human activity is upstream of (many) AI capabilities. Data Leverage and Collective Action Any system with data dependence creates potential collective bargaining power. Data Dividends, Payments, and Commons Rent Sharing value from data-dependent AI. Commons, Infrastructure, and Public AI How provenance, commons governance, and public institutions can make AI answerable. Provenance and Governance of AI Supply Chains Provenance and rules for data flows. Knowledge Commons and AI Enclosure How AI reshapes open knowledge ecosystems. Public AI AI institutions that answer to publics. Models, Evaluation, and Social Worlds How platforms and models represent social behavior, and how those representations should be evaluated. Social Computing and Platforms Platform behavior, participation, and attention. LLM Social Simulation and Agent-Based Modeling Getting value from agent-based models of social systems. AI Safety and Evaluation Audits, benchmarks, contestability, and overreliance.