Scholar
Luke Thorburn
Google Scholar ID: VNF3f_QAAAAJ
King's College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
184
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
20
Co-authors
30
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published numerous papers on topics such as NLP for democracy, using collective dialogues and AI to find common ground between Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders, the possibility of democratic AI, better recommendation algorithms, shaping the future of social media, pluralistic views on AI, systemic risks of recommenders, new ways to regulate social media, experiments as the best kind of transparency, a research agenda for sociotechnical approaches to AI safety, a framework for evaluating the ethicality of influence, error in the Euclidean preference model, polarization as probabilistic dependence, etc.
Research Experience
- Worked on multiple research projects, including democratic AI governance, recommender systems and social media, bridging-based ranking, societal sorting, middleware, prosocial media, using AI to support peace processes, etc.
Education
- PhD student at King's College London; Research fellow at the AI & Democracy Foundation.
Background
- Core research interests: the intersection of algorithms and conflict, such as democratic AI governance, recommender systems and social media, bridging-based ranking, societal sorting, middleware, prosocial media, using AI to support peace processes (e.g., Israel and Palestine).
