Featured Work
How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve The Housing Shortage — An essay arguing that mechanism design is a political technology – that rewriting incentives can turn zero-sum conflicts over housing, land, and climate into cooperative markets (Noema Magazine, 2026).
AI Chatbots Are Getting Too Good at Making You Say ‘Yes’ — An investigation into the gentle persuasion of emotional AI and the regulatory blind spots it exploits (HackerNoon Top Story, 2025).
A Day in the Life of Brian Malika — A narrative profile of a Kenyan science writer (Association of British Science Writers, 2024).
Selected Analysis & Reporting
Targeted intervention using network characteristics: An experiment — Experimental research on how targeted incentives can trigger cascades of behaviour to solve coordination failures in complex systems (ScienceDirect, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023).
Fluent AI Output Is Straining Human Verification Systems — An analysis of the shift from production to verification, and how ‘synthetic diligence’ breaks institutional accountability (HackerNoon Top Story, 2026).
Have We Broken the Republic? — An investigation into the historical cycle of democratic decay and the policy decisions that shifted America’s social equilibrium (bellwether.works, 2025).
Empathy.exe: When Tech Gets Personal — A philosophical inquiry into machine ethics, Shinto animism, and the changing nature of human connection (Swiss Cognitive, 2024).
HennyGe Wichers, PhD, is a writer and systems economist whose work investigates the invisible architectures of coordination and cooperation – how systems shape behaviour, how trust works, and how technological decisions harden into social realities.