Michael Macy, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Information Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is a recent recipient of an AWS [Amazon Web Services] Agentic AI Amazon Research Award.
The award supports Macy’s proposal called, “Artificial Collective Intelligence: The Structure and Dynamics of LLM Communities.”
With dozens of published papers over the course of his 40-plus year career, Macy uses computational models and other methods to explore social patterns – from fads and the spread of self-destructive behaviors to the segregation of neighborhoods and assimilation of minority cultures. More recently, his research has focused on political polarization. He directs Cornell’s Social Dynamics Laboratory.