Benjamin Laufer
Benjamin Laufer is a Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell Tech. He studies the values and politics embedded in technological systems, particularly those deployed in high-impact, high-complexity domains in the public realm. He is a doctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative and an affiliate of the Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice group at Cornell University. He is advised by Helen Nissenbaum and Jon Kleinberg. He holds a B.S.E. (cum laude) in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University.
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Essays and Scholarship
Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust
The problem with social media isn’t problematic content alone—it’s the elimination of processes we rely on to guide our decisions and keep us informed.
By Benjamin Laufer & Helen Nissenbaum