Thomas Qitong Cao

Studying the political economy of information and technology

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

Privacy-first, resource-efficient, open source: How a Chinese startup is rewriting Silicon Valley's AI playbook. Full analysis here: https://t.co/1Jz59haON1

[The Fletcher School @FletcherSchool]

Professor @thomasqcao comments on what sets #DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng apart from other Chinese entrepreneurs for Bloomberg @business. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

https://t.co/tMZjWn2VjT

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions https://t.co/UL1s2sdyfe

[Neil Malhotra @namalhotra]

This is fantastic transparency, showing unweighted results and how they change based on reasonable weighting criteria.

[The Fletcher School @FletcherSchool]

Meet Thomas Cao (@thomasqcao), our new Assistant Professor of Technology Policy! Cao works at the intersection of technology and political behavior in democratic and authoritarian contexts. He examines how #AI shapes political opinions, and he investigates how information more broadly affects people and what kinds of regulations governments impose upon the information landscape.

🔗 https://t.co/osj57bY23D

[Thomas Qitong Cao @thomasqcao]

@tianyuf It’s interesting that they have the digit expression for the dates of issue/expiry but not for the date of birth…

[Thomas Qitong Cao @thomasqcao]

@tianyuf They should’ve added the two-digit month expression

[Justin Grimmer @JustinGrimmer]

Forecasts of US presidential elections are everywhere, and they’re discussed obsessively by journalists and the public. But are they any good? @dean_c_knox, @seanjwestwood, and I show we’re decades, centuries, or (sometimes) millenia away from evidence that they are any better than random guessing, let alone which forecast is most accurate.

https://t.co/Uchfi3XHu7

[Cory McCartan @CoryMcCartan]

OK, I've come up with a simple example to explain the Wisconsin thing in the old 538 model* and demonstrate why thinking about a "weighted blend" of fundamentals + polls can be misleading.

(*the same pattern is still present in 8 or so states now; see Iowa)

1/n

[Michael Kistner @MichaelRKistner]

What's the current status of causal inference in political science? Since the advent of the credibility revolution social scientists pay more attention to establishing cause-and-effect relationships. But how has poli sci responded to the new methods and trends? (1/n)

[Neil Malhotra @namalhotra]

The largest social media deactivation RCT was just published in PNAS: https://t.co/3e2Sb4bPWH

[The Fletcher School @FletcherSchool]

Fletcher is pleased to welcome three stellar additions to our faculty! Thomas Qitong Cao, Adam Kamradt-Scott, and Sally Zhang will join the school in fall 2024.

More on our new faculty appointments here: https://t.co/YDq0KGhM3F

[Stanford University @Stanford]

Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today. https://t.co/5WExsT8cWh

[Kevin S. Xu @kevinsxu]

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence showed Li Qiang this slide during a visit that made it on to CCTV (h/t @niubi)

It outlines 3 fundamental challenges to China's domestic large AI model development

Let's unpack each 🧵👇

[Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @GSBsiLab]

The @GSBsiLab is conducting a second round of interviews for postdoctoral fellows with a background in applied microeconomics and/or designing and analyzing complex digital experiments.

Please share! 1/2

https://t.co/g6eWvYlSmy

[Stanford Graduate School of Business @StanfordGSB]

A randomized controlled trial can show that an intervention is effective, but it won’t always show for whom it works. That’s why Assistant Professor Jann Spiess is using #AI to mine deeper insights from data collected in the field.

https://t.co/0EPF4ZQUPr

[ASPA’s Section on Int’l & Comparative Admin @ASPA_SICA]

The Section of International and Comparative Administration of @ASPANational recognizes Dr. @FukuyamaFrancis for his prodigious scholarship.

Dr. Fukuyama and Dr. Fred Riggs share a curiosity about diverse societies, interdisciplinarity, and a broad conception of our field.

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up! @UChicago @DSI_UChicago
https://t.co/3P6nO98aVA

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

I ran all of the Sora prompts through Midjourney

Interesting how similar some are

side-by-sides against vids:

[Thomas Qitong Cao @thomasqcao]

@xuyiqing Thank you!