I am looking for PhD students this year! If you are interested in working on misinformation/polarization particularly in the global south, apply to work with me! Rutgers iSchool is well ranked & has a great set of faculty working on similar problems. DM/email me with questions

🚨Accuracy Prompt Meta-Thread🚨 Weve proposed that prompting people to think about accuracy reduces misinfo sharing. But is this effect replicable & robust? Gordon Pennycook & I analyzed 20 exps, N=26k Answer: resounding YES, across many headlines/prompts nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/

🚨New Paper🚨 Many have asked my opinion on Elon Musk's new verification, blue check & identity cue ideas for @Twitter. Today we published a large-scale experiment in Nature Human Behaviour showing identity cues have dramatic effects on how we perceive & engage with content online A🧵

🚨New Publication🚨 Very happy to share that our large-scale experiment (~500k people in 23 countries) where we test a simple descriptive norms intervention to increase vaccine acceptance, is finally published in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

❗Smartphones & social media are destroying children’s mental health ❗Correlation/causation aside, these graphs are depressing. I'd love to hear people's opinions on the current state of the evidence, the extent of the problem and ideas for solutions. ft.com/content/0e2f6f…

As ChatGPT and other LLMs become better and better at *answering questions,* the important complementary human skill becomes: Asking questions. As I tell my students... Asking really good questions is an art form that is becoming even more important in the Age of AI.

fantastic postdoc opportunity to work with Dean Eckles and Manish Raghavan

Interested in some combination of formal privacy, generative models, fairness & causal inference? We're looking for researcher to join a team at MIT IDE collaborating with MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in this area.

Congratulations to University of Cyprus—the first institution in Cyprus—on achieving AACSB accreditation! Achieving accreditation is a process of rigorous internal focus, engagement with an AACSB-assigned mentor, and peer-reviewed evaluation. Read more: 📢aacsb.edu/media-center/n…

Sitting in his class for a semester in 2009 was one of the most precious moments of my studies! Below is how we celebrated then his birthday with his favourite matrix made by cupcakes😀 Thanks Prof Gil Strang for inspiring thousands and thousands students around the world 🙏🙏🙏

🚨!!Out today in @Science!!🚨 In a massive interdisciplinary collaboration between 14 researchers across institutions, we rectify misconceptions and offer key research directions to inform policy and beneficial uses of generative AI. Thread below: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy to share that our new paper on "Enhancing employee engagement through integrating leadership and employee job resources" with my Phd Student Giorgos Giallouros and researchers from Faculty of Economics and Management, Un. of Cyprus & UCY Medical School published today in IPMJ. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

tfw you arrive at your @airbnb and realize that the whole space is essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into

A new profile of me, covering research on peer influence, causal inference, and where network structure comes from news.mit.edu/2023/dean-eckl…

Check out our nature comment article on AI generated content during elections: nature.com/articles/d4158… Short summary: There was not much gen AI content during the elections. This was (imo) because it was much easier to generate misinfo/hate content with existing tooling.

🚨 A new working paper that tackles the big question: "Will prompt engineering still matter in the future?" 🤔 bit.ly/3YdExbt This is joint work w/ Eaman Jahani, Benjamin Manning, Joe Zhang, Hong-Yi TuYe, Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي, Christos Nicolaides and Siddharth (Sid) Suri. More details below 👇 1/

Proud of our new paper on prompting & GenAI advances! My Big takeaway: AI keeps making us humans better in unexpected, exciting ways. Presumably, this will open up further opportunities for us to leverage and benefit from this technology! bit.ly/3YdExbt

“As generative models get better, people improve their prompting techniques.” What a nice collaboration with this amazing group. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🚨 NEW Pre-print! Thankful and proud of working with David Holtz, Eaman Jahani, Benjamin Manning, Joe Zhang, Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي, Siddharth (Sid) Suri and Christos Nicolaides to shed some experimental light on the future of prompt engineering! arxiv.org/abs/2407.14333

Let people play with AI & they will figure out some of what they need to do. This cool experiment found that people naturally adapt their prompting style to more sophisticated AIs, using simpler prompts for DALLE-2, but making them complex as they learned DALLE-3 could do more.