🚀🤖 Exciting News! #HCOMP2024 , focusing on 'Responsible Crowd Work for Better AI,' invites you to become a sponsor! Join us in Pittsburgh from Oct 16-19, elevate your brand and connect with global AI talent. #AISponsorship . humancomputation.com/sponsors.html

I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.

Arvind Narayanan and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.

Preorder: princeton.press/awecv19z

Our latest study measures how persuasive language models like Claude are compared to humans. We find a general scaling trend: newer models tend to be more persuasive, with Claude 3 Opus generating arguments that don't differ statistically from human-written ones.

Stoked to see that our work is referenced in anthropic's nice new paper on persuasion

I’m incredibly excited to have a big upgrade to the PolicyKit system! If you recall, that system required programmers to author short scripts to define governance. Leijie Wang has designed a grammar and policy library to enable no-code flexible policy authoring!!💥🚀 #chi2024

Elon Musk is making the perfect natural experiment by making X unavailable in Brazil (for absolutely stupid reasons; if he doubles down on this it will be unavailable in Europe very soon).

Calling a vaccine dangerous vs. expressing disapproval of calling vaccines dangerous?

*Using* words is different from *mentioning* them.

We study this use-mention distinction and its importance in hate speech and misinformation detection. #NAACL2024

arxiv.org/pdf/2404.01651…

📢 New Preprint Alert! 📢
Interested in the relationship between political polarization and social norms but always wondered how to measure the existing pluralism in our societies?

An 8 million 'jobs apocalypse' if regenerative AI is let loose with no controls (or thought for people) is not inevitable, our report this week found

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan explains how it can be avoided if government & others take the right steps soon

Report at bit.ly/IPPR-AI

Waiting for the perfect randomized control trial to drop to finally prevent kids from spending 18 hours a day on an iPad

🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity, Please share! 🚨

Leticia Bode, Lisa Singh and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us at Massive Data Institute (MDI) on our project on GenAI, Misinformation, and Social Media. Full-time research, no teaching required. Please reach out!

apply.interfolio.com/143997

Assessing the causal effect of social media on well-being is hard because...

#1 The treatment is too broadly defined.
#2 Network effects.
#3 Effects are not huge and likely heterogeneous.
#4 Treatment is not truly binary, Social media is what you make of it.