Some things I’ve worked on.
Traditional:
Improving medical diagnosis
- Nikolas Zöller, Julian Berger, Irving Lin, Nathan Fu, Jayanth Komarneni, Gioele Barabucci, Kyle Laskowski, Victor Shia, Benjamin Harack, Eugene Chu, Vito Trianni, Ralf Kurvers, and Stefan Herzog. “Human-AI collectives produce the most accurate differential diagnoses.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14981 (2024).
- Gioele Barabucci, Victor Shia, Eugene Chu, Benjamin Harack, Kyle Laskowski, and Nathan Fu. ‘Combining Multiple Large Language Models Improves Diagnostic Accuracy’. NEJM AI (17 October 2024). https://doi.org/10.1056/AIcs2400502.
Global governance strategy
- Harack, B., Laskowski, K., Bailey, R., Marcotte, J., Jaques, S., Datta, D., and Kuski, S., 2017. Ruling ourselves: The deliberate evolution of global cooperation and governance. New Shape Library, Global Challenges Foundation. (nicely formatted version here)
- An interdisciplinary effort to present a new macrostrategy for tackling the intertwined problems of technological existential risk and global governance.
- The cooperation possibility frontier - one way to visualize the difficulty of achieving international agreements.
Urban policy
Energy sustainability (electric grid, natural gas)
Condensed matter physics (semiconductors)
- Cooper, D.R., D’Anjou, B., Ghattamaneni, N., Harack, B., Hilke, M., Horth, A., Majlis, N., Massicotte, M., Vandsburger, L., Whiteway, E. and Yu, V., 2012. Experimental review of graphene. ISRN Condensed Matter Physics, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/501686
- A widely-cited review of the experimental properties of graphene.
- My thesis: Energy level mixing and hyperfine effects in double vertical quantum dots (2012).
- Other papers:
- Harack, B., Leary, A., Coish, W.A., Hilke, M., Yu, G., Payette, C., Gupta, J.A. and Austing, D.G., 2013, December. Power spectra and auto correlation analysis of hyperfine-induced long period oscillations in the tunneling current of coupled quantum dots. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1566, No. 1, pp. 237-238). American Institute of Physics.
- Leary, A., Wicha, A., Harack, B., Coish, W.A., Hilke, M., Yu, G., Payette, C., Gupta, J.A. and Austing, D.G., 2013, December. Hyperfine-induced hysteretic funnel structure in spin blockaded tunneling current of coupled vertical quantum dots at low magnetic field. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1566, No. 1, pp. 205-206). American Institute of Physics.
Speculative:
Risks (and governance) of asteroid manipulation
Humanity’s long term future
