Researchers from Caltech and Activision Publishing, a video game publisher, are working together to bring their combined expertise to address this behavior in video games.Now, two researchers from Caltech, one an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and the other a political scientist, are teaming up with Activision on a two-year research project that aims to create an AI that can detect abusive online behavior and help the company's support and moderation teams to combat it.The sponsored research agreement involves Anima Anandkumar, the Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, who has trained AI to fly drones and study the coronavirus; Michael Alvarez, professor of political and computational social science, who has used machine learning tools to study political trends in social media; and Activision's data engineers, who will provide insight into player engagement and game-driven data."Over the past few years, our collaboration with Anima Anandkumar's group has been very productive," Alvarez says."Our teams continue to make great progress in combating disruptive behavior, and we also want to look much further down the road," Vance says."