Research

Selected publications

AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions (with S. Goldstein, A. O’Gara, M. Chen, and D. Hendrycks). Patterns. 5(5) (2024), 100988.
Diminished diversity-of-thought in a standard large language model (with P. Schoenegger and C. Zhu), Behavior Research Methods 56 (2024), 5754-5770.
Cooperation in alternating interactions with memory constraints (with M. A. Nowak and C. Hilbe). Nature Communications. 13 (2022), Article no. 737.
The evolution of cognitive biases in human learning. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 541 (2022), 111031.

List of publications

Mathematical modeling:

Cooperation in alternating interactions with memory constraints (with M. A. Nowak and C. Hilbe). Nature Communications 13 (2022), Article no. 737.
The evolution of cognitive biases in human learning. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 541 (2022), 111031.
Divide-and-conquer dynamics in AI-driven disempowerment (with M. Tegmark). arXiv CS (2023). Preprint.
Devising and detecting phishing emails using large language models (with F. Heiding, B. Schneier, A. Vishwanath, and J. Bernstein). IEEE Access. 12 (2024). 42131-42146.

Experimental studies:

Large language model prediction capabilities: Evidence from a real-world forecasting tournament (with P. Schoenegger). arXiv CS (2023). Preprint.
Diminished diversity-of-thought in a standard large language model (with P. Schoenegger and C. Zhu), Behavior Research Methods 56 (2024), 5754-5770.
Perils and opportunities in using large language models in psychological research (with S. Abdurahman, M. Atari, F. Karimi-Malekabadi, M. J. Xue, J. Trager, P. Golazizian, A. Omrani, and M. Dehghani). PNAS Nexus 3(7) (2024). Link currently directs to the Open Science Framework preprint.
Which humans? (with M. Atari, M. J. Xue, D. Blasi, and J. Henrich) Open Science Framework PsyArXiv (2024). Preprint.
Wisdom of the silicon crowd: LLM ensemble prediction capabilities rival human crowd accuracy (with P. Schoenegger, I. Tuminauskaite, R. V. S. Bastos, and P. E. Tetlock). Science Advances 10(45) (2024).
AI-augmented predictions: LLM assistants improve human forecasting accuracy (with P. Schoenegger, E. Karger, and P. E. Tetlock). ACM TiiS 4 (2025), 1-25.
Large language models are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders (with P. Schoenegger et al.). arXiv CS (2025). Preprint.

Survey research:

AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions (with S. Goldstein, A. O’Gara, M. Chen, and D. Hendrycks). Patterns. 5(5) (2024), 100988.

Pure mathematics:

On pairwise intersections of the Fibonacci, Sierpinski, and Riesel sequences (with D. Ismailescu). Journal of Integer Sequences 16 (2013), 13.9.8.
Linnik’s theorem for Sato–Tate laws on elliptic curves with complex multiplication (with E. Chen and A. A. Swaminathan). Research in Number Theory 1(28) (2015), 1-11
On logarithmically Benford sequences (with E. Chen and A. A. Swaminathan). Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 144 (2016), 4599-4608.
The “Riemann hypothesis” is true for period polynomials of almost all newforms (with Y. Liu and Z. Q. Song). Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 3(31) (2016), 1-11.
The van der Waerden complex (with R. Ehrenborg, L. Govindaiah, and M. Readdy). Journal of Number Theory 172 (2017), 287-300
Bounded gaps between products of distinct primes (with Y. Liu and Z. Q. Song). Research in Number Theory 3(26) (2017), 1-28.
Elliptic curve variants of the least quadratic nonresidue problem and Linnik’s theorem (with E. Chen and A. A. Swaminathan). International Journal of Number Theory 14(1) (2018), 255-288. Not open access; link instead directs to the arXiv preprint.
Conjugacy growth of commutators. Journal of Algebra. 526 (2019), 423-458.

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