P M Krafft

MS student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Postdoc, University of California Berkeley
Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof), Sociology, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Joined
January 2026

Names

P M Krafft (Preferred)
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Peter Martin Krafft
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Peter Krafft
, 
Peaks M Krafft
, 
Peaks Krafft
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Peter M Krafft
, 
P. M. Krafft
, 
Peter M. Krafft
, 
Peaks M. Krafft

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@csail.mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@oii.ox.ac.uk

Personal Links

Career & Education History

MS student
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (umass.edu)
Present
Postdoc
University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
Present
Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Sociology, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)
2024 – Present
Senior Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts, London (arts.ac.uk)
2021 – 2024
Senior Research Fellow (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
2019 – 2020
Postdoc
Information School, University of Washington (uw.edu)
2018 – 2019
Postdoc
Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2017 – 2019
PhD student
Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2012 – 2017
MS student
Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (umass.edu)
2010 – 2012
Undergrad student
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (umass.edu)
2007 – 2010

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
Emma Spiro
2018 – 2019
Postdoc Advisor
Thomas L. Griffiths
2017 – 2019
PhD Advisor
Alex Pentland
2012 – 2017
PhD Advisor
Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2012 – 2017

Expertise

gemmology
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gemology
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gemstones
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jewellery
2021 – Present
History of Computing
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History of Cybernetics
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History of AI
2020 – Present
Technology and power
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tech justice
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social justice
2019 – Present
philosophy of AI
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philosophy of machine learning
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epistemology
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metaphysics
2017 – Present
critical data studies
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critical platform studies
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critical AI studies
2017 – Present
science and technology studies
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sociology of knowledge
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sociology of technology
2017 – Present
Bayesian cognitive models
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social cognition
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race and decolonial thought
2017 – Present
Political economy
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historical materialism
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Marxism
2017 – Present
Levels of analysis
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Philosophy of social science
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analytical sociology
2012 – Present
Sociology of belief
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cognition
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cognitive science
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social cognition
2012 – Present
Ethics of AI
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Participatory action research
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Participatory design
2019 – 2023
Design of digital institutions
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human-computer interaction
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computer-supported collaborative work
2013 – 2021
Rumours
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Disinformation
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social networks
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social learning
2016 – 2019
Theory of collective intelligence
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computational models
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collective behaviour
2012 – 2017
Collective behaviour
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Distributed cognition
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Social sampling
2012 – 2017
Web-based behavioural laboratory experiments
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Web-based field experiments
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Networked behavioural experiments
2012 – 2017
topic models
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social network analysis
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computational social science
2010 – 2012

Publications

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Co-Authors

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