Work with faculty including Angèle Christin (Communication), Jeanne Tsai (Psych), jeff hancock (Communication), Johan Ugander (MS&E), myself, Nate Persily (Law), Robb Willer (Sociology, Psychology, Business), and Tatsunori Hashimoto. Postdocs get joint mentorship by a pair of faculty.

Can we design AI systems to consider democratic values as their objective functions? Our new #CSCW24 paper w/ Michelle Lam, Minh Chau Mai, jeff hancock, Michael Bernstein introduces a method for translating social science constructs into social media AIs arxiv.org/abs/2307.13912 (1/12)

🚨New from me Deepak Kumar Durumeric jeff hancock. We use web-browsing data (N = 21M) to quantify the (in)accessibility of misinformation and news visits, finding that conservative misinformation is most likely to be inaccessible to researchers via scraping doi.org/10.1177/089443…

💡 New Publication in J Children and Media: 💡

In this paper, we present the development and validation of the Youth Social Media Literacy Inventory (YSMLI), a 90 item bank that allows to create scales of various lengths and for different purposes.

(1/12)

Tomorrow at noon Pacific, join jeff hancock in conversation with Nate Persily, for a discussion on the implications of AI advancements on trust in human interactions.

Free, with zoom session open to the public: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/generat…

Tuesday, April 25, jeff hancock talks with Michal Kosinski about research suggesting that ToM-like ability (thus far considered to be uniquely human) may have emerged in Large Language Models, as a byproduct of their improving language skills.

🔗cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/theory-…

My first ever publication is finally out! This project with @RyanMooreComm and jeff hancock began before I even started grad school.

During the 2020 election, compared to 2016, we find that misinformation website exposure and engagement is down

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thrilled this paper is out! I hope it contributes to the misinformation conversation by (1) focusing us on those most likely to be exposed and (2) highlighting the need for research on spaces we cannot observe with web browsing data, like platform and encrypted messaging apps.

As the use of AI-generated text increases, Prof. jeff hancock and Stanford HAI scholars propose solutions—watermarks, accents, and self-disclosing machines—to combat deception and misinformation. stanford.io/42mmU98

Our statement (co-authors: Maurice Jakesch jeff hancock) reflects the fact that not only AI can learn to write like a human; it could be *better* than humans... in learning what makes people *think* something is human. 3/

AI or human? Assumptions regarding language usage can lead to flawed judgments of whether language was AI- or human-generated, Cornell Tech and Stanford University researchers found in a series of experiments. Mor Naaman (@[email protected]) jeff hancock PNASNews news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

🗓️ We're excited to announce dates for the 2nd annual Trust & Safety Research Conference: September 28-29, 2023, at Stanford.

Application to present & registration info coming soon. The fall issue of Journal of Online Trust and Safety will be the conference proceedings.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/trust-…

There are > 100,000 schools in America and unless it’s your kid’s school, on any given day you’re most likely to hear about the *least* representative thing that happened at any of them creating the impression that this drumbeat of unrepresentative events is typical.

🌟 Big news: The fall issue of the Journal of Online Trust & Safety will be the Conference Proceedings for the 2nd Annual Trust & Safety Research Conference!

Big announcement— Yale University's FREE new happiness course for teenagers is finally here! The Science of Well-being for Teens is a 6-wk course on Coursera designed to give teens science-based strategies for reducing stress/feeling happier. Please RT & share: coursera.org/learn/the-scie…