Creators pour years into building a following, but in a growing underground market, you can simply buy accounts and inherit their audience. In our new pre-print, we find this practice of repurposing accounts to be prevalent and consequential on YouTube! arxiv.org/abs/2507.16045

Whether or not AIs “truly” understand is less important than how they reshape jobs, politics, and culture. My new post: why the “Human of the Gaps” fallacy distracts us from governing real-world AI impacts. (link below)

This is a thoughtful blog on whether LLMs truly “understand.” My favorite line: “understanding might not be a *binary property requiring full world-grounding*, but something that can emerge in *degrees* from the interplay of form, compression, and efficiency.”

I'm starting to get emails about PhDs for next year. I'm always looking for great people to join! For next year, I'm looking for people with a strong reinforcement learning, game theory, or strategic decision-making background. (As well as positive energy, intellectual

✍️ I wrote a short piece for the #SPSPblog about our work on AI persuasion (w/ Manoel Riccardo Gallotti Bob West). Read it at: spsp.org/news/character…. Thanks Andy Luttrell Paula Pietromonaco Society for Personality and Social Psychology for your invitation and feedback during the process!