Academic Article – Henry Farrell

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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

March 13, 2025 featured pin Science

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past By Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, ...

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AI as Governance

January 9, 2025 Annual Review of Political Science

Henry Farrell, “AI as Governance,” Annual Review of Political Science, forthcoming.

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Henry Farrell Talks to Kim Stanley Robinson

June 11, 2024 featured Vector with Kim Stanley Robinson

Henry Farrell and Kim Stanley Robinson (2024), “Henry Farrell Talks to Kim Stanley Robinson,” Vector, 299. Henry Farrell teaches democracy and international affairs at Johns ...

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Bias, Skew and Search Engines Suffice to Explain Online Toxicity – with Cosma Shalizi

March 15, 2024 Communications of the ACM with Cosma Shalizi

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi (2024), “Bias, Skew and Search Engines Suffice to Explain Online Toxicity,” Communications of the ACM, preprint, 67,4:25-28. U.S. political discourse ...

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The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism – with Marion Fourcade

February 28, 2024 Daedalus featured machine learning as social information processing

This short piece compares 21st century machine learning to 19th and 20th century bureaucracy – we hope to write more. While people in and around ...

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Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach – with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

May 9, 2023 American Political Science Review featured with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

Henry Farrell, Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg (2023), “Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach,” American Political Science Review. 117,2:767-772. A prominent and publicly influential literature challenges ...

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Reducing the Transactional Value of Identity & Race – with Margaret Levi

February 28, 2023 Daedalus with Margaret Levi

Grieve Chelwa, Darrick Hamilton, and Avi Green explain how existing accounts of capitalism systematically neglect racial identity group stratification. Their approach points to an important ...

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Weak Links in Finance and Supply Chains are Easily Weaponized – with Abraham Newman

May 9, 2022 featured Nature pin

Russian sanctions highlight how network analysis is urgently needed to find and protect vulnerable parts of the global economy. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 ...

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Useful for What and Useful to Whom? IR and Its Public – with Jack Knight

May 13, 2021 International Studies Review with Jack Knight

Henry Farrell and Jack Knight (2021), “Useful for What and Useful to Whom? IR and Its Public,” International Studies Review, 23,4:1933-1958. The contributors to this ...

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The Janus Face of the Liberal International Information Order: When Global Institutions are Self-Undermining – with Abraham Newman

February 9, 2021 International Organization Vol 75 with Abraham Newman

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (2021), “The Janus Face of the Liberal International Information Order: When Global Institutions are Self-Undermining,” International Organization Vol 75, No.2:333-58 ...

Henry Farrell

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

AI as Governance

Henry Farrell Talks to Kim Stanley Robinson

Bias, Skew and Search Engines Suffice to Explain Online Toxicity – with Cosma Shalizi

The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism – with Marion Fourcade

Analytical Democracy: A Microfoundational Approach – with Hugo Mercier and Melissa Schwartzberg

Reducing the Transactional Value of Identity & Race – with Margaret Levi

Weak Links in Finance and Supply Chains are Easily Weaponized – with Abraham Newman

Useful for What and Useful to Whom? IR and Its Public – with Jack Knight

The Janus Face of the Liberal International Information Order: When Global Institutions are Self-Undermining – with Abraham Newman

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