Featured Work
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 systems economist, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of technology, institutions, and social life.
Her writing investigates the invisible architectures of coordination and cooperation: how systems shape behaviour, how trust works, and how technological decisions harden into social realities.