IDEAS Research

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.

In addition to our publications, we make our research available at the New Future of Work Reader (opens in new tab).