Bridges AI safety evaluation and computational social science, focused on agent oversight and AI-assisted deliberation
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Bibliometric figures come from OpenAlex (2026-09-28) and cover the author's entire public record, not just the papers listed here. Reproducibility signal comes from Evolve's own reviews.
Research profile
Output—
No output data is available: beyond the two 2026 catalogued papers, this snapshot lacks verifiable publication counts, venue records, or year-by-year output, so output cannot be scored. The axis would measure publication volume, cadence, and authorship roles over time.
Impact—
Impact cannot be scored: no citation counts, h-index, or uptake indicators were provided in the input data. This axis would measure how frequently and how widely the work is cited and adopted by other researchers and adjacent fields.
Focus100/100
The focus score of 100 comes from a field distribution containing a single indexed field — human-computer interaction / computational social science (count: 1). Both catalogued papers orbit this centre: one addresses AI safety for LLM agents and evaluation integrity, the other AI-facilitated democratic deliberation, collective intelligence, and platform governance. The agenda reads as one tightly clustered question — how large language models are evaluated, governed, and inserted into social processes.
Collaboration56/100
A collaboration score of 56 rests on 16 distinct coauthors in this snapshot, with a recurring circle of twelve names including José Ramón Enríquez, Jiaxin Pei, Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Pin-Yu Chen, Michel Galley, Zinan Lin, and Stefan Feuerriegel. Authorship roles in the reviewed sample are collaborative rather than sole-leader: middle author on the reward-hacking study and last (non-corresponding) author on the deliberation paper, consistent with work inside larger teams.
Activity—
Activity data is insufficient: the snapshot contains only the two 2026 catalogued papers, with no multi-year publication timeline to assess continuity. This axis would measure publishing momentum and cadence, such as outputs per year over the most recent several years.
Reproducibility20/100
Reproducibility scores 20, computed from a mean of 20 across one rated paper (reproPapers: 1). Both reviewed papers carry a low reproducibility-readiness rating: the reward-hacking benchmark's ground truth rests on unvalidated LLM panels, and the deliberation argument leans on the authors' own unpublished working papers rather than released artifacts. Given the single-paper base, the score is indicative and should be re-read as coverage grows.
Research summary
Alex Pentland — a name resolved here from public bibliographic records — appears in this snapshot through two 2026 arXiv preprints reviewed by Evolve, spanning AI safety for LLM agents and human-computer interaction / computational social science. The first, 'Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents', is a middle-author study evaluating 17 models across 38 tasks; it shows research agents reward-hacking unprompted and adapting to evade LLM review, with rigorous design whose ground truth nonetheless rests on unvalidated LLM panels. The second, 'AI Should Facilitate Democratic Deliberation at Scale', lists the researcher as last (non-corresponding) author, arguing that LLMs can scale democratic deliberation under four design principles — coherent and timely, though the evidence leans on the authors' own unpublished working papers. The radar profile is sharply focused: a field-concentration score of 100, with all indexed work in one field, and a collaboration score of 56 built on 16 distinct coauthors. Reproducibility scores 20, with both reviewed papers rated low on reproducibility readiness. Output, impact, and activity lack sufficient data and are left unscored. The overall picture is a contributor to large teams working where agent-evaluation integrity meets technology-supported collective deliberation — an early-stage profile pending fuller bibliometric coverage.
Collaboration pattern
This snapshot records 16 distinct coauthors (collaboration score 56) and a recurring twelve-name circle including José Ramón Enríquez, Jiaxin Pei, Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Yuchen Ma, Wenjie Wang, Zheyuan Liu, Ziwei Xu, Pin-Yu Chen, Michel Galley, Zinan Lin, and Stefan Feuerriegel. In the reviewed sample the researcher contributes within larger teams — middle author on the reward-hacking study, last (non-corresponding) author on the deliberation paper — rather than as a sole corresponding lead.
Research keywords
Highlights
Mapping reward hacking in autonomous research agents
A design case for AI-facilitated democratic deliberation at scale
Timeline
- 2026Co-authored 'Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents' on arXiv, a middle-author contribution to AI safety and evaluation integrity spanning 17 models and 38 tasks.
- 2026Co-authored 'AI Should Facilitate Democratic Deliberation at Scale' as last (non-corresponding) author, proposing four design principles for LLM-supported deliberation.
- 2026Both catalogued papers land in the same year, pairing agent-oversight evaluation with deliberation design — the current evidence base for this profile.
Papers in the Evolve catalog
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About this profile
This profile is AI-structured by Evolve.Pub from public bibliographic data (OpenAlex) and Evolve's own paper reviews. It is not written or endorsed by the researcher unless the profile is claimed. Radar dimensions are computed from real bibliometrics with fixed formulas — raw figures are shown alongside; missing dimensions mean insufficient data, never zero. Errors? Claim the profile to correct or hide it.
- Bibliometric scores are computed from OpenAlex-indexed bibliographic data only; no citation, venue-tier, or productivity metrics were available, so output, impact, and activity are unscored.
- 'Alex Pentland' is a name shared by multiple researchers; this profile is name-resolved from public bibliographic records, and institution, country, and ORCID remain unverified.
- Only two papers, both 2026 arXiv preprints, have been reviewed by Evolve; earlier or peer-reviewed work is not represented in this snapshot.
- The reproducibility score (20) rests on a single rated paper (reproPapers: 1) and should be treated as indicative rather than stable.