Ethan Busby "AI-Enabled Persuasion Research: Experimenting with Effective Political Messaging"

Friday 31 May 2024, noon (EDT)
Toronto Data Workshop
Ethan Busby, Brigham Young University
Ethan Busby is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, specializing in political psychology, extremism, artificial intelligence, and computational social science. His research relies on various methods, using lab experiments, quasi-experiments, survey experiments, text-as-data, surveys, artificial intelligence, and large-language models. He studies extremism in democracies, including what extremism is, who people blame for extremism, and what encourages and discourages extremism.