Senior Research Associate, Social Computing Group, U of Zurich. Computational social/communication scientist
Aleksandra Urman
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I somehow vividly remember this exact issue at IC2S2 in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. Computational social science is skewed this way as well.
The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪
The answer is a clear no.
[The findings] raise a sharp
warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations.
arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781
#SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder
The *most debated* ballot since @foeg.bsky.social data begins: no prop has generated as many articles as the upcoming vote to cap the population.
The media tone is very critical. Yet still the radical right SVP as the only major actor in favor gets the most attention www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/research/...
✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
Happy to share that the Social Computing Group received the Best Poster Award at the inaugural UZH.ai Interdisciplinary Lab Exchange & Poster Session 🚀
We presented our research on AI from three angles: user, system, and interaction.
Many thanks to @uzhai.bsky.social for organizing the event.
People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use?
Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms
direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...
Aleksandra Urman
Jay Van Bavel, PhD
Julia Partheymüller
Lmao
Rahel Freiburghaus
A big shout-out to Michael Correll (is he on Bluesky...?) for this blog post which is ::chef's kiss:: as a bridge to HCI from my work on ethics education in the context of "hey maybe let's re-think what it means to be good at computer science."
mcorrell.medium.com/the-othering...
If the line for the mens bathroom is long and there is no line for the womens' bathroom you may very well be at AWS re: invent or another tech conference.
