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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, a Research Affiliate in the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, and a UKRI Policy Fellow working on the Future of Online Regulation in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Before coming to Nottingham I was a Senior Research Associate in AI Risk and Foresight at CSER and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. I was previously affiliated with the Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee, the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
I have a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2018).
Expertise Summary
I am a social scientist working at the intersection of expert decision-making, futures studies and technology policy. I am interested in understanding the long-term impacts of frontier AI systems on social and democratic processes and developing interventions that can shape these impacts and mitigate extreme risks. My work covers both fundamental research into methodologies for futures thinking and policy interventions for the effective management of AI risks.
Research Summary
I am a UKRI Policy Fellow working on the future of online regulation. I am currently on (part-time) secondment to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
I am Principal Investigator of the Measuring the quality of collective reasoning project, funded by the British Academy and Co-I of the Benchmarking LLM agents on real-world tasks: Reproducibility project, funded by Open Philanthropy.
I am also a Co-Director of the Institute for Replication (I4R). I4R works to improve the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating research findings in leading academic journals. Our team collaborates with researchers to: promote and generate reproductions and replications through one-day hackatons, establish an open access website, prepare standardized file structure, code and documentation, and develop educational materials on replication. From 2024 we have exciting new collaborations with Nature Human Behaviour and Psychological Science.
Finally, I am a member of the History, Philosophy, and Culture Working Group of the next generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. We contribute social science and humanities perspectives on responsible telescope siting, outreach, education, foundations, algorithms, inferences, visualizations, governance structures and knowledge formation in scientific collaborations. I co-lead the Collaborations Focus Group.
Selected Publications
MARCOCI, A., WEBB, M. E., ROWE, L., BARNETT, A., PRIMORATZ, T., KRUGER, A., KARVETSKI, C. W., STONE, B., DIAMOND, M. L., SALETTA, M., VAN GELDER, T., TETLOCK, P. E. and DENNIS, S., 2024. Validating a forced-choice method for eliciting quality-of-reasoning judgments Behav Res Methods. 56(5), 4958-4973 FRASER, H., BUSH, M., WINTLE, B. C., MODY, F., SMITH, E. T., HANEA, A. M., GOULD, E., HEMMING, V., HAMILTON, D. G., RUMPFF, L., WILKINSON, D. P., PEARSON, R., SINGLETON THORN, F., ASHTON, R., WILLCOX, A., GRAY, C. T., HEAD, A., ROSS, M., GROENEWEGEN, R., MARCOCI, A., VERCAMMEN, A., PARKER, T. H., HOEKSTRA, R., NAKAGAWA, S., MANDEL, D. R., VAN RAVENZWAAIJ, D., MCBRIDE, M., SINNOTT, R. O., VESK, P., BURGMAN, M. and FIDLER, F., 2023. Predicting reliability through structured expert elicitation with the repliCATS (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science) process PLoS One. 18(1), e0274429 MARCOCI, A., THRESHER, A. C., MARTENS, N. C. M., GALISON, P., DOELEMAN, S. S. and JOHNSON, M. D., 2023. Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science Nat Hum Behav. 7(8), 1229-1230 BOVENS, LUC and MARCOCI, ALEXANDRU, 2023. The gender-neutral bathroom: a new frame and some nudges Behavioural Public Policy. 7(1), 1-24