New preprint 📑: "Templated or fully Synthetic? Prompt construction as a confound in measuring LLM political stance beyond writing assistance". The preprint is available: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2608.11008 TL;DR 🧵 follows 👇 1/N

📢 Our paper 🤯🧠 "Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks" has been accepted at the ACM Fairness, Accountability & Transparency (FAccT) conference 2026. The preprint is available: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2605.03512 TL;DR 🧵 follows 👇 1/5

Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks

The scope of AI safety and alignment work in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has so far mostly been limited to harms related to: (a) discrimination and hate speech, (b) harmful/inappropriat...

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At @scripts-berlin.eu, Genia Kostka and I are organizing an online speaker series on AI and the global order - join us! We have a rockstar line-up. Sign up here (all times are CEST): fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sit...

👋 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social, today I'm organizing a BoF discussion on the sociotechnical challenges of GenAI (13:00, Les Oudayas) that encompass both technical, as well as normative decisions involving political and ethical considerations. #NLProc #EACL2026 1/2 👇

Our paper on ✨populism✨ and how LLMs struggle to detect it in political debates 🗣️ has been accepted to EACL main conference. Meet the lead author @kiddothe2b.bsky.social in Rabat to discuss PolSci🤝NLP

Ilias Chalkidis@kiddothe2b.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5

New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" 🔍 Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982

Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens

AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...

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📢 By overwhelming demand, submission deadline has been heroically extended to September 2nd (AoE) 🎉 Same deadline for ARR commits. 👉Direct: openreview.net/group?id=EMN... 👉ARR: openreview.net/group?id=EMN... So… sharpen your arguments, polish those experiments and plead your papers⚖️📚

Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop@nllpworkshop.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 We have a (appropriately colored) poster! 🇨🇳📜 📢 Check the CfP: 🔗 nllpw.org/workshop/call/ 📄 Direct submissions (🗓️ deadline: 26/Aug): 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=EMN... 📝 ARR commits (🗓️ deadline: 2/Sep): 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=EMN... ✍️ Did you already start writing? #NLLP #legaltech #NLProc

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · last yr.

Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization. But generative AI and a hypercompetitive employment market is immiserating them too.

I’m thrilled to share that, starting today, I’ve officially rejoined the University of Copenhagen as an Assistant Professor. I'm looking forward to new projects and collaborations, with a focus on expanding my research into computational social science. A new paper is coming very soon! 1/2

🎉 The Call for Papers for the 7th NLLP workshop at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social is out! 📢 🌐 Fully updated CfP: nllpw.org/workshop/call/ 🗓️Submission deadline: 26 August 📧If you'd like to help out with reviewing, please contact us at nllp.chairs@gmail.com Looking forward to your papers #NLProc

NLLP Workshop 2025

The seventh workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP 2024) explores methods and applications of Natural Language Processing for the Legal Domain by focusing on legal text and text with lega...

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The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs

@theguardian.com portrays Makis Voridis as simply a "former right-wing activist"; the guy who co-led neo-fascist groups with the Greek junta dictator (Papadopoulos), the leader of Neo-nazi Golden Down (Michaloliakos), and the Holocaust denialist (Pleuris) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Greek PM seeks ‘reset’ with former far-right activist as migration minister

Shaken by rail protests, Kyriakos Mitsotakis brings in new transport minister while tacking right on migration

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Hello 🦋, my recent work "Investigating LLMs as Voting 🗳️ Assistants via Contextual Augmentation: A Case Study on the 🇪🇺 European Parliament Elections 2024" has been accepted at #EMNLP2024 🌴. 📑 Preprint 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.08495