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On VoxEU, we talk about the somehow surprising findings from a survey experiment on organized crime and trust in the state. When violence spreads, citizens turn to the state and embrace state institutions, even in a low trust area, like Southern Italy. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

mafia + politics + machine learning + public policy: read this VoxEU summary of our latest working paper ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Great outline at the XV Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime in Zurich 👇 Gian Maria Campedelli presents our paper 'Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions'

Anti-Social Behavior and Persuasion Ability of LLMs This work studies the interaction patterns of LLMs in a multi-agent setting with social hierarchy. The study was done under a specific setting involving a guard and a prisoner who seeks additional yard time or escaping from

Very grateful for all the comments so far -- the "simple models work best" machine learning paper w Marco Morucci now has a Github (and a non-technical explainer). We'll post code soon. Thanks for interest! github.com/ArthurSpirling…

🎉 Our work "SMOSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks" has been accepted by AAAI 2025! #AAAI2025 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.13053 with Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri, Giovanni Iacca 🧵1/6

Terrible news. Cecilia Sala is one of the most talented, brilliant, rigorous journalists in Italy and is now detained in Evin. Bring her home! #FreeCecilia.

Italian journalist arrested in Iran and held in notorious Evin Prison on.ft.com/4iRI6MC

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala should be released immediately by Iran. Journalism is not a crime.

We need to bring attention to this and push for the release of Cecilia Sala !

Presenting today at #CS2Italy our new work on persuasion and anti-social behaviors of LLMs in multi-agent settings. Joint project with jacopo staiano @[email protected], Bruno Lepri, Itakello, Nicolò Penzo, Marco Guerini, Roberto Dessì MobS Group @ FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK Università di Trento

Taking this trophy home for a second time feels absolutely unreal!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ To my team and all of you who’ve cheered me on from every corner of the world – thank you! Huge respect to Alexander Zverev for an incredible match 🤝🏻🤝🏻🤝🏻🇦🇺 #AusOpen

endless disgust.

Un algoritmo per individuare i Comuni a rischio infiltrazioni mafiose: ne ha parlato il TG! Un servizio sul paper “Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions” di Gian Maria Campedelli, Gianmarco Daniele, Marco Le Moglie. Potete rivederlo qui: rainews.it/tgr/piemonte/v…

8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May unitn.it/en/phd/sociolo…

Check the latest in PNASNews from our lab at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK. Congrats Massimiliano Luca Simone Centellegher Sebastiano Bontorin Bruno Lepri!