Michiel Anton Bakker

Michiel Anton Bakker is the Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor in Contemporary Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on AI alignment, societal impacts of AI, and AI’s role in human-human and human-computer interaction. He is affiliated with MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems & Society and the MIT Center for Constructive Communication based at the MIT Media Lab. Bakker is also a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. His work explores AI safety and computational social science, with publications on AI mediation, democratic deliberation, and the impact of advanced AI systems on democracy.

Michiel Bakker is a researcher at Google DeepMind and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on Machine Learning, AI Safety, Large Language Models, and Computational Social Science. His work explores the intersection of AI and societal impact, including the development of advanced language models and their role in collective intelligence. He investigates methods to enhance fairness in algorithmic decision-making and the use of AI in democratic deliberation. Bakker's research also addresses the technical challenges of AI safety, such as ensuring reliable and ethical AI systems. His publications cover topics like AI-driven consensus in crowd-sourced fact-checking, the impact of AI on democracy, and the use of machine learning for visualization recommendation.