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Overview

Iyad Rahwan is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within social sciences, with a primary focus on the intersection of technology, morality, and society.

Their recent publications include studies on a range of topics linking artificial intelligence and human behavior. Notable papers are:

  • Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making (2024), published in PNAS Nexus
  • Bad machines corrupt good morals (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Who Gets Credit for AI-Generated Art? (2020), published in iScience
  • The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (2023), published in Annual Review of Psychology

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Jean-Franĉois Bonnefon
  • Manuel Cebrián
  • Edmond Awad
  • Azim Shariff
  • Alex Rutherford

Iyad Rahwan publishes regularly in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with subfields including:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Safety Research
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Economics and Econometrics

Key topics in their research include:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Regional resilience and development

Among professional distinctions, Iyad Rahwan was named an ACM Senior Member in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The Moral Machine experiment

    Edmond Awad;Sohan Dsouza;Richard Kim;Jonathan Schulz

  • The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

    Jean-François Bonnefon;Azim F. Shariff;Iyad Rahwan

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  • Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

    Iyad Rahwan;Guillermo R. Simari

  • Using millions of emoji occurrences to learn any-domain representations for detecting sentiment, emotion and sarcasm

    Bjarke Felbo;Alan Mislove;Anders Søgaard;Iyad Rahwan

  • Argumentation-based negotiation

    Iyad Rahwan;Sarvapali D. Ramchurn;Nicholas R. Jennings;Peter Mcburney

  • Society-in-the-loop: programming the algorithmic social contract

    Iyad Rahwan

  • Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

    Morgan R. Frank;David Autor;James E. Bessen;Erik Brynjolfsson;Erik Brynjolfsson

  • Intelligent agents for automated one-to-many e-commerce negotiation

    Iyad Rahwan;Ryszard Kowalczyk;Ha Hai Pham

  • Towards an argument interchange format

    Carlos Chesñevar;Jarred McGinnis;Sanjay Modgil;Iyad Rahwan

  • Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change.

    Nicholas Obradovich;Nicholas Obradovich;Robyn Migliorini;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Iyad Rahwan

  • A genetic algorithm approach for location-inventory-routing problem with perishable products

    Abdelhalim Hiassat;Ali Diabat;Iyad Rahwan

  • Psychological roadblocks to the adoption of self-driving vehicles

    Azim Shariff;Jean-François Bonnefon;Iyad Rahwan

  • Time-Critical Social Mobilization

    Galen Pickard;Wei Pan;Iyad Rahwan;Iyad Rahwan;Manuel Cebrian

  • Laying the foundations for a World Wide Argument Web

    Iyad Rahwan;Fouad Zablith;Chris Reed

  • Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

    Michael Rovatsos;Iyad Rahwan;Felix Fischer;Gerhard Weiss

  • Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000 participants.

    Edmond Awad;Sohan Dsouza;Azim Shariff;Iyad Rahwan

  • Cooperating with machines.

    Jacob W. Crandall;Mayada Oudah;Tennom;Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko

  • Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills

    Ahmad Alabdulkareem;Ahmad Alabdulkareem;Morgan R. Frank;Lijun Sun;Bedoor AlShebli

  • Bad machines corrupt good morals.

    Nils Köbis;Jean-François Bonnefon;Iyad Rahwan

  • An argumentation based approach for practical reasoning

    Iyad Rahwan;Leila Amgoud

  • A characterisation of strategy-proofness for grounded argumentation semantics

    Iyad Rahwan;Kate Larson;Fernando Tohmé

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Cebrian
Manuel Cebrian Carlos III University of Madrid
Peter McBurney
Peter McBurney King's College London
Simon Parsons
Simon Parsons University of Lincoln
Chris Reed
Chris Reed University of Dundee
Frank Dignum
Frank Dignum Umeå University
Nicholas R. Jennings
Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University
Azim F. Shariff
Azim F. Shariff University of British Columbia
Nicolas Maudet
Nicolas Maudet Sorbonne University
Fabio Pianesi
Fabio Pianesi Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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