jake hofman
jakehofman.bsky.social
jake hofman
@jakehofman.bsky.social
senior principal researcher at msr nyc, adjunct professor at columbia
Excited to share this work, joint w/ many great collaborators, on the simulation environment we built to study the "Agentic Economy" and what we learned along the way.

- GitHub: lnkd.in/dNRmhB5B
- Blog: lnkd.in/dRzYQKpU
- Tech report: lnkd.in/diTH4V5W
- Broader thoughts: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by jake hofman
🚨The Agentic Economy🚨 new paper w/ 9 co-authors: what happens to economy with expanded agent use for both consumers & businesses? The architecture of agentic communication will determine extent to which generative AI democratizes (or restricts) access to
economic opportunity arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799
May 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
NYC undergrads: still one more day to apply for this year's Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh
April 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Check out ChatBench, our new paper+dataset. We turned AI benchmarks into user-AI chats and show that AI-alone evals often fail to predict how real humans perform with AI.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Attention NYC undergrads: Applications are open for our 12th annual Data Science Summer school at Microsoft Research NYC! Apply here by April 15th: bit.ly/3pCQENh
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March 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by jake hofman
Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher

Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD
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Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD
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Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain
December 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM