Researcher, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
I’m Rufus, an undergraduate history and philosophy of science student at UCL. I’m interested in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and technology. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work as a research assistant at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) under the wonderful Ilan Strauss, Tim O’Reilly and Mariana Mazzucato. At the IIPP, my contributions were largely dedicated to the algorithmic attention rents research project. In three recently released working papers we theorise and empirically demonstrate how big tech platforms are able to exploit their market power by controlling user attention.
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