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IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft’s Copilot division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the AI era. We work at the intersection of computer and behavioral science, with specific interests in interpretability and alignment of human-AI systems, next generation agents, and the economics of AI. We combine large-scale empirical analytic science with post-training to build, measure, and improve AI systems that support human productivity broadly defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to our publications, we make our research available at the New Future of Work Reader (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft’s Copilot division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the AI era. We work at the intersection of computer and behavioral science, with specific interests in interpretability and alignment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1156987,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_group_start":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13563,13548],"msr-group-type":[243694],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-1156979","msr-group","type-msr-group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-research-area-economics","msr-group-type-group","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_group_start":"","msr_detailed_description":"","msr_further_details":"","msr_research_lab":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Scott Counts","user_id":31471,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"counts"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Debarati Das","user_id":44039,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"debaratidas"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Gaurav Verma","user_id":43886,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"gauravverma"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Lin Ai","user_id":44032,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"lai"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Gaia Molinaro","user_id":44255,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"gaiamolinaro"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Andrey Zaikin","user_id":44197,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"anzaikin"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Adam Davies","user_id":44258,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"adamdavies"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Benjamin Laufer","user_id":44263,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"blaufer"}],"related-publications":[1017918,1017927,1018086,1143087,1144520,1157113,1157125,1173836,1176208,1176212],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-projects":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"tab-content":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/1156979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-group"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/1156979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184582,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/1156979\/revisions\/1184582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=1156979"},{"taxonomy":"msr-group-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group-type?post=1156979"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=1156979"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=1156979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}