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Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, September 2013
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30 news outlets
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7 blogs
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1 policy source
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444 X users
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59 Facebook pages
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70 Google+ users
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Title
Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time
Published in
Scientific Reports, September 2013
DOI 10.1038/srep02627
Pubmed ID
Authors

Neil Johnson, Guannan Zhao, Eric Hunsader, Hong Qi, Nicholas Johnson, Jing Meng, Brian Tivnan

Abstract

Society's techno-social systems are becoming ever faster and more computer-orientated. However, far from simply generating faster versions of existing behaviour, we show that this speed-up can generate a new behavioural regime as humans lose the ability to intervene in real time. Analyzing millisecond-scale data for the world's largest and most powerful techno-social system, the global financial market, we uncover an abrupt transition to a new all-machine phase characterized by large numbers of subsecond extreme events. The proliferation of these subsecond events shows an intriguing correlation with the onset of the system-wide financial collapse in 2008. Our findings are consistent with an emerging ecology of competitive machines featuring 'crowds' of predatory algorithms, and highlight the need for a new scientific theory of subsecond financial phenomena.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Switzerland 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 123 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 24%
Researcher 25 18%
Student > Master 17 12%
Other 13 9%
Professor 11 8%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 16 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 17 12%
Physics and Astronomy 17 12%
Social Sciences 15 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 8%
Other 47 33%
Unknown 22 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 719. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 December 2023.
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#28,825
of 25,770,491 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#450
of 142,923 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#129
of 211,767 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#2
of 634 outputs
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