Publications
Advancing AI negotiations: A large-scale autonomous negotiation competition [link]
PNAS (2026)
Michelle Vaccaro, Michael Caosun, Harang Ju, Sinan Aral, and Jared Curhan
Selected Press Coverage: MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter
Preregister experiments with AI agents [link]
Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (2026)
Michelle Vaccaro
Awards: Spotlight (top 5%) paper
AI negotiation competitions: Discovery, design, and the future of negotiation research [link]
Negotiation Journal (2026)
Jared Curhan and Michelle Vaccaro
When combinations of humans and AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis [link]
Nature Human Behaviour (2024)
Michelle Vaccaro, Abdullah Almaatouq, and Thomas Malone
Selected Press Coverage: Psychology Today, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, and Charter
The effects of mixing machine learning and human judgment [link]
Communications of the ACM (2019)
Michelle Vaccaro and Jim Waldo
Working Papers
Michelle Vaccaro and Jessika Trancik. Public expectations of technological change and the influence of expert and AI-based forecasts. Conditionally accepted at Nature Energy (Stage 1 registered report).
Michelle Vaccaro, Jaeyoon Song, Abdullah Almaatouq, and Michiel Bakker. Evaluating human-AI safety: A framework for measuring harmful capability uplift. Under review.
Michelle Vaccaro and Jared Curhan. Personality engineering with AI agents: A new methodology for negotiation research. Under review.
Michelle Vaccaro, Mohammed Alsobay, David Fang, Abdullah Almaatouq, and Jared Curhan. Personality engineering: Experimental evidence from human-AI negotiations. In preparation.
Jaeyoon Song, Jennifer Heyman, Michelle Vaccaro, Alice Cai, Abdullah Almaatouq, and Thomas Malone. How human-AI synergy changes as AI technology advances: A case of story writing. In preparation.