Kobi is a PhD candidate in Social Data Science and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Kobi’s doctoral research evaluates the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems to influence human attitudes, behaviour, and cognition. Alongside his doctoral research, Kobi works as a member of the technical staff at the UK AI Safety Institute.
He holds an MSc (Politics and Communication) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was awarded the departmental prize for Best Overall MSc Performance, and an MSc (Social Data Science) from the OII, where his thesis on political microtargeting with language models was published in PNAS. He holds a BA (Political Science) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Human-AI interaction, persuasion, large language models, natural language processing.
9 June 2024
OII researchers investigate the extent to which political micro-targeting with LLMs offers persuasive returns for political parties.
