For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Deadline extended! Get your direct submissions in by March 8 AoE
The next edition of the NLP+CSS will be at ACL 2026! It includes an open-ended shared task (work with the Opioid Industry Documents Archive) with travel grants as prizes!
1. By far the most important characteristic of a good response is its relevance to a key research question in the study. Not every response is eloquent or even relevant to the question asked, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not valuable.
Hiring a postdoc for the Normativity Lab at Johns Hopkins (2026 start). Looking for multiagent systems expertise (RL/generative agents) + interdisciplinary background in AI and cognitive science/econ/cultural evolution.
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New preprint and dataset, work led by talented PhD student Jonathan Ivey! There's lots of interest in using LLMs to conduct qualitative interviews, but we don't know if they work because we don't know what makes "good" interview. We analyze 16,940 responses across 343 interviews and find:
Kate Starbird
2. We do not find empirical support for two of the most common measures used to evaluate AI-assisted and AI-conducted interviews: clarity and information-based surprisal.
We’re also releasing our dataset, the Qualitative Interview Corpus, which contains 343 interview transcripts and their corresponding research papers from 14 qualitative studies to support more empirical research on semi-structured interviews.
Rob Voigt
Gillian Hadfield
Anjalie Field
Anjalie Field
Anjalie Field
Anjalie Field
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
