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Dr. Ben D. Sawyer is an applied neuroscientist and human factors engineer optimizing the exchange of information between machine and human. He directs The Readability Consortium, where teams backed by Google, Adobe, and Monotype are reengineering the technology of the written word for billions of readers worldwide. His Evil Digital Twin research series at Black Hat draws standing-room audiences exploring AI exploitation of human psychology. He chairs the Board of the Cognitive Security Institute. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, Fast Company, The BBC, and more…

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Featured Research: Modeling Manipulation of Humans by AI

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Dr. Sawyer is researching how Human Digital Twin (HDT) technologies manipulate humans to achieve goals.  

Over 20,000 have viewed his Evil Digital Twin talk series, a Blackhat favorite helping security professionals predict the future, plan for the complex present, and see beyond…

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Featured Peer-reviewed Works

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Toward a theory of visual information acquisition in driving

The aim of this study is to describe information acquisition theory, explaining how drivers acquire and represent the information they need…

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Grand challenges for human factors and ergonomics

Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) has been evolving since its inception as a unique and independent discipline that focuses on the nature of human–artifact interactions,…

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Hacking the Human: The Prevalence Paradox

Winner of the Human Factors Prize. When operators struggle to act in highly automated systems due to the biological failures of The Vigilance Effect, the human is bypassed, leaving the machine in charge…

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