University of Michigan has an open assistant professor position in Complex Systems. Amazing opportunity to do join an interdisciplinary community of faculty and students. Looking for discipline thinkers who transcend disciplines. lsa.umich.edu/cscs/news-even…

Great brief article: gives big picture plusses and minuses of how collections of humans and bots compete, cooperate, coordinate, promote contagion of ideas, and collectively decide. Archive link to an earlier version for those behind Nature's fierwall arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14410

U.S. Executive Order on AI terminology section includes (in order) (l)  The term “Federal law enforcement agency” (m)  The term “floating-point operation” (n)  The term “foreign person” If you gave people the definitions of (l) and (n), imagine how they might define (m)

In my Collective Intelligence a thread is institutions - markets, democracies, organizations, communities and algorithms - enable better coordination. Website tracking effect of NYCs new congestion pricing policy (a move from self-organization to market) congestion-pricing-tracker.com

Creativity Test. Make a list of dog names such that each sequential pair of dogs is a "funny" combination Example: 1. Pecan 2. Butter 3. Peanut 4. Mister 5. Rogers 6. Jolly 7. Rancher Each pair is funny: butter pecan, peanut butter, mister peanut, mister rogers, ..

Moderna created 750 GPTs in house openai.com/index/moderna/ The brilliant Brice Challamel explains how in this exhilarating podcast beyondtheprompt.ai AI is assistant, expert, coach, and co-creator. Everyone is now a 5 person team! Using AI is not nearly as risky as not using AI!

2/Here's a link to the report: morganstanley.com/im/publication…

Yes, this is about you-know-who. Much more at the link below. natesilver.net/p/elon-musk-an…

I organized discussion on descent phenomenon in prediction. Less paradoxical than it first appeared. More data and more parameters prevent overfitting. Slide with key intuition and cite attached

Discussion on AI often focuses on whether it is (a) augmenting humans or (b) an agent. Here's a super thoughtful, important take that it is a cultural and social technology. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. This aligns with research at U-Michigan on The Choice sites.google.com/view/the-choic…

Excited to announce that my book, The Difference, has been reissued as a Princeton Classic!! press.princeton.edu/collections/pr…

Roland: chief supervisor patio installation

New Episode! Scott Page (University of Michigan) joins host Steven N. Durlauf to unpack complex systems thinking: what it is, why it matters, and how diversity can make systems more resilient. Listen every other Monday: Website: bit.ly/3YdiCkj Spotify: bit.ly/3qO0KhP Apple:

Honored to have just been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ⁦Santa Fe Institute⁩ ⁦UMICH - Center for the Study of Complex Systems⁩ ⁦⁦Ross School of Business⁩ nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

Northwestern was kind enough to post a brief piece John Ledyard and I wrote about our PhD advisor Stan Reiter who would be 100 this year kellogg.northwestern.edu/-/media/files/…

At conference where someone said “Chief AI Officers” will not go away. Ironic, that the acronym is CAIO!

Phillip Ball kindly sat for an interview to discuss his book "How Life Works" from a #collectiveintelligence perspective. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Do I drink my usual Americano or try something different? Philip E. Tetlock Michael Mauboussin Annie Duke?

Thinking same as always!

My recent short piece on how AI and Information Technology transform the physics of deliberation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…