Cass Sunstein has advised the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank and the United Kingdom's Behavioural Insights Team. "Core commonalities, like how people dislike losses more than they like gains or why people all over the world make the same mistakes about risk, are at the core of our species," he says.
He has lately turned to algorithms and AI, examining how they can improve human judgment. "What's also interesting is what algorithms can't do, like predict romantic attraction or if a joke will land," he notes.
Cass SunsteinRobert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard