Noah Benjamin-Pollak

Noah Benjamin-Pollak (noahabp [at] stanford.edu (noahabp[at]stanford[dot]edu)) is a PhD candidate in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO) advised by Dr. Arvind Karunakaran. He earned his MBA from Boston College. His research focuses on how different professions interact, particularly how authority and expertise are utilized in cross-occupational contexts. His current research project uses ethnographic methods to understand cross-occupational collaboration between technical experts and traditional business employees in a late-stage battery startup. Additionally, he is focused on understanding how expertise and authority are built and communicated between experts and non-expert audiences.

With the McCoy Fellowship, Noah will be investigating how to balance the need for scientific transparency with protecting the anonymity and pseudonymity of research participants from being compromised by increasingly sophisticated generative artificial intelligence algorithms. His pilot investigations have shown that these algorithms make breaking the anonymity of participants exponentially easier. However, social scientists do not just need to protect their participants from the current state of the art algorithms, but from the more sophisticated algorithms yet to come.