Year 2 Student - 2024 Cohort - Cohort 6

My undergraduate degree was in physics where I focused my third year project on exploring the application of a physics model to understand misinformation spreading. After graduating, I spent one year working as a technical writer in FinTech, another as an analyst in Health care, and another as a research analyst for a psychologist in a cyber security research team at AirBus. I'm interested in using data to understand patterns in cyber security and how people and technology interact - particularly around how different trust networks might form. 

Community Resilience to Attacks from Multi-Agent AI

Research into the deployment of AI agents into online communities is increasing, with rising investment supporting their autonomous deployment across industry. This alongside progress enabling agents to collaborate through conversation, suggests the likely formation of networks where AI and humans interact. Yet, the potential social harms of these multi-agent systems remain understudied.

This research aims to understand the risks and vulnerabilities that can arise in networks of humans and LLMs. This may include LLMs colluding or competing with one another at the expense of humans, or humans changing their group behaviours and trust networks. The work aims to inform the 'evidence dilemma' in policy-making, where harms of new technology are not evidenced quickly enough before the technologies are deployed. The research also seeks to test interventions and mitigations for any harms that may emerge.

My academic placement was completed with my supervisors Matthew Edwards and Janina Hoffman.

My industrial placement was completed with Ofcom.

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