I would like to thank my wonderful co-authors, Anthony Sicilia and @malihealikhani.bsky.social Only with their efforts and constant support, this paper could come together. 🧵n/n

A new @brookings.edu article by @malihealikhani.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social highlights the problem of “AI sycophancy” and argues we need a mix of public policies, system design and user education to address the issue. Read the article here: www.brookings.edu/articles/bre...

Breaking the AI mirror

Alikhani discusses human-AI collaboration, the potential for harmful AI sycophancy, and beneficial productivity and creativity enhancements

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‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second? In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems. Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Pew Research Center analysis found that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...