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From: "Christakis, Nicholas" To: "Jeffrey E." leevacatiorvagmail.com> Subject: Re: HW thanks Sent Saturday, September 24. 2016 11:59:30 AM dear jcff: we are doing a number of new things. one of my favorite projects, currently under review so i cannot share all details, involves an initiative in what we call `dumb Al.' we are going in a different direction than others who are increasing the sophistication of Al technologies. we are decreasing it. we are developing simple sorts of AI, and we are creating bots that we drop into groups of humans (creating `heterogeneous systems' of hots interspersed among real humans) so as to facilitate the performance of those groups. through a bit of thoughtful programming and careful inter-position of the bots, we can enhance group performance in a number of valuable and useful ways, we think. we think there are many applications and could be transformational, as you put it, though, judging from the sons of things you probably hear about, perhaps not. and we have two other sustained, ongoing efforts: breadboard.yale.edu (software with which we create artificial societies of real people, which allows us to do experiments, e.g., this recent paper in Nature: http://humannaturelab.net/paperlineauality-and-visibility-of-wealth-in-experimental-social- networks/ ) and http://hutnannaturelab.net/honduras-social-networks/ (a large field experiment in Honduras in which we are trying to create artificial tipping points to foster large-scale behavior change) finally, we have some other cool work involving alternative currencies and the role of network cycles in economic systems (basically, without cycles, the systems perform terribly). best, nicholas On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:40 AM 9/24/16, jeffrey E. [email protected]> wrote: thanks, what are you currently working on? have you seen any discovery that is trasnformational. in your field.? it seems little new in many others. BTW, sol goldman was one of my first clients EFTA_R1_00036307 EFTA01744218 On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: thanks, jeffrey. a summation of the year that appeared in the Atlantic a couple of months ago is here: http://www.theatlantic.comrpolitics/archive/2016/05/thc-peril-of-writing,-a- provocative-email-at-yale/484418/ it was a demanding year, and we did our best. an essay i wrote for the New York Times, which attempts to address one part of the difficult issues this past year, and that might possibly be of interest to you, is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/teaching-inclusion-in-a- divided-world.htmll r=0 and, in case you have not seen it, and are interested, here is my wife's original email: https://www.thefire.org/email-from-crika-christakis-dressing-yourselves- cmail-to-silliman-colleee-vale-student‘-on-halltm een-costumes/ — nicholas On Sep 21, 2016, at 8:46 AM 9/21/16, jeffrey E. leevacationAgmail.com> wrote: watched that you tube with horror you were great. please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacationOgmail.com and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science Yale University EFTA_R1_00038308 EFTA01744219 Department of Sociology Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Medicine Yale Institute for Network Science PO Box 208263 New Haven, CT 06520-8263 tel: fa email: lab: h p: www. umanna urea me twitter: @NAChristakis please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected] and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA_R1_00038309 EFTA01744220