Researching autocratic politics, finance ministers & international cooperation at Stockholm University.
Jonas W. Schmid
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Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams?
A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
How will the rise of autocracies in international relations reshape global governance and what can democratic policy-makers do to counter this? I wrote a blogpost on this based on a policy brief with @jonastallberg.bsky.social and @faradj.bsky.social: www.democracywithoutborders.org/43349/how-th...
Also check out the full brief: www.wfd.org/sites/defaul...
Michael Clemens
Equally insane is the complete lack of both condemnation from political elites and spontaneous mass protests from citizens. Indeed, grand corruption is already a fully normalised feature of authoritarian rule in the United States.
Jonas W. Schmid
Jonas W. Schmid
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out
@nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output.
nature.com/articles/s41...