Alex is a social scientist working at the intersection of futures studies, AI policy, expert decision-making and risk management. He is currently on an 18-month secondment to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology where he focuses on the emerging and longer-term challenges and opportunities presented by advanced AI systems. His research has been supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NESTA Foundation, British Academy, Open Philanthropy, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and ai@cam. You can read his published work in Nature Human Behaviour, Royal Society Open Science, Behavior Research Methods, Behavioural Public Policy, and other academic journals. Alex also serves as the co-Director of the Institute for Replication, an initiative working on improving the credibility of social and behavioural science by systematically reproducing and replicating research findings in leading academic journals.
Alex has previously been a Senior Research Associate in AI Risk and Foresight at CSER and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, as well as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2018).
You can find out more about Alex’s research interests and outputs on his personal webpage: http://alexandrumarcoci.com/.
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Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science
Paper by Alexandru Marcoci, Ann C. Thresher, Niels C. M. Martens, Peter Galison, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Michael D. Johnson
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Predictable Artificial Intelligence
Paper by Lexin Zhou, Pablo A. Moreno-Casares, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, John Burden, Ryan Burnell, Lucy Cheke, Cèsar Ferri, Alexandru Marcoci, Behzad Mehrbakhsh, Yael Moros-Daval, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Danaja Rutar, Wout Schellaert, Konstantinos Voudouris, José Hernández-Orallo
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Predicting and reasoningabout replicability usingstructured groups
Paper by Bonnie Wintle, Eden T. Smith, Martin Bush, Fallon Mody, David P. Wilkinson, Anca M. Hanea, Alexandru Marcoci, Hannah Fraser, Victoria Hemming, Felix Singleton Thorn, Marissa F. McBride, Elliot Gould, Andrew Head, Daniel G. Hamilton, Steven Kambouris, Libby Rumpff, Rink Hoekstra, Mark A. Burgman, Fiona Fidler
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The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture
Paper by Peter Galison, Juliusz Doboszewski, Jamee Elder, Niels Martens, Abhay Ashtekar, Jonas Enander, Marie Gueguen, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Roberto Lalli, Martin Lesourd, Alexandru Marcoci, Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez, Priyamvada Natarajan, James Nguyen, Luis Reyes-Galindo, Sophie Ritson, Mike D. Schneider, Emilie Skulberg, Helene Sorgner, Matthew Stanley, Ann C. Thresher, Jeroen Van Dongen, James Weatherall, Jingyi Wu, Adrian Wüthrich
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Predicting reliability through structured expert elicitation with the repliCATS (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science) process
Paper by Hannah Fraser, Martin Bush, Bonnie Wintle, Fallon Mody, Eden T. Smith, Anca M. Hanea, Elliot Gould, Victoria Hemming, Daniel G. Hamilton, Libby Rumpff, David P. Wilkinson, Ross Pearson, Felix Singleton Thorn, Raquel Ashton, Aaron Willcox, Charles T. Gray, Andrew Head, Melissa Ross, Rebecca Groenewegen, Alexandru Marcoci, Ans Vercammen, Timothy H. Parker, Rink Hoekstra, Shinichi Nakagawa, David R. Mandel, Don van Ravenzwaaij, Marissa McBride, Richard O. Sinnott, Peter Vesk, Mark Burgman, Fiona Fidler