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Douglas Guilbeault

@douglasguilbeault.bsky.social

Assistant Prof. in Org. Behavior @StanfordGSB | Computational Culture Lab http://comp-culture.org | Social Networks, Cognition, Cultural Evolution, AI

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Douglas Guilbeault@douglasguilbeault.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are honored to receive this recognition for our work and to see it spurring generative conversation 🙏 computational social science is increasingly poised to reveal and help us address pervasive social distortions in internet culture and AI. Thank you for your interest!

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

Douglas Guilbeault@douglasguilbeault.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I am without the words to describe how thrilled our team is to see our paper selected for the cover of @Nature! As the tagline captures, we hope our study empowers others to see how tools in computational social science can provide critical "reality checks" for our social world! @nature.com

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Douglas Guilbeault@douglasguilbeault.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m delighted to appear in this week’s episode of the @nature.com podcast, where we discuss our paper and its implications for the role AI is playing in reinforcing social biases on a large scale (e.g., via the biases ChatGPT introduces into hiring processes): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025

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Douglas Guilbeault@douglasguilbeault.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨I'm thrilled to share our newest paper in @nature.com “Age and Gender Distortion in Online Media and Large Language Models” with my amazing collaborators Solene Delecourt and Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan! nature.com/articles/s41... See our 3 minute summary video in the comments😄

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

Spurred by “alarming political interference in academic research by the Trump administration,” Brussels’s Vrije Universiteit (VUB), or Free University, allocated $2.7 million in funding last week for at least 12 new postdoctoral roles open to “censored Americans.”

Europe races to lure U.S. scientists as Trump puts pressure on universities

Some European universities are offering funding for American scientists considering a relocation and promising a safe haven free from academic censorship.

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Joshua Becker@joshuabecker.bsky.social · 2y ago

ONE WEEK TO DEADLINE for Collective Intelligence 2025 submissions! Accepting non-archival AND proceedings submissions, to include contributions from a diverse set of academic traditions. More info here: ci.acm.org/2025/submit/

Call for Participation - ACM Collective Intelligence 2025

⏰ Submission Deadlines and Templates Collective Intelligence 2025 offers several opportunities to share your latest research and insights. All submissions should be submitted via EasyChair by the list...

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Amit Goldenberg@amit-goldenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

What was more interesting to me is the correlation between use time and loneliness. Higher use time was positively associated with loneliness. This is very likely driven by the fact that lonelier people are just more likely to spend more time with the chat.

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Simon Kirby@simonkirby.bsky.social · 2y ago

I love this insight. The friction in a creative act (in art, but also writing, science) is so crucial. The trouble, the difficulty, the finding a way past roadblocks is how we discover new things about the world and about ourselves. Be wary of tools (like AI) that promise to remove all the friction.

Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · 2y ago

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2y ago

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.
Rodney Brooks@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Top notch. "discourse about large models as intelligent agents is fundamentally misconceived. ... Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2y ago

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Sherry Pagoto, PhD@drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 2y ago

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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