Parker Davis is a senior political science student and research fellow for the Social Science and AI Lab. His research focuses on American political behavior, particularly the use of LLMs in political persuasion. He is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy and studies group identities and political behavior.

Grant Lyon is an undergraduate research fellow at SAIL. As a senior Political Science major at Brigham Young University, his research interests include regime change, democratic institutions, and peacemaking.

Rachel Stark is a research assistant for the Social Science and AI Lab. She is a senior studying International Relations and German. Her research focuses on the role of emerging technologies in political violence, as well as the foreign policies of states under revolutionary pressure.

Caleb Leach is a Sophomore studying Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is particularly interested in political psychology. His research focuses on affect and persuasive effects.

Joshua Gubler is a political psychologist who is also head of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at BYU. His research focuses on depolarization through prejudice reduction, although he writes on a variety of topics, including the role of affect and emotion in shaping human attitudes and behavior.

Dr. Ethan C. Busby is a political psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on how democratic societies should respond to extremism, using approaches from political psychology and generative AI tools. These are deeply integrated in his work—political psychology informs his use of AI, and he uses AI tools test theories from political psychology.

Isaac Rallison is a student at Brigham Young University studying Computer Science with an emphasis in Machine Learning. As a research assistant, he is passionate about using data to help make the world a better place.

Lyndsey Facer is an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University. She is studying political science with an emphasis in International Strategy and Diplomacy. Her research focuses on how AI can improve diplomatic skills.