🚨New preprint! 🚨 "Boosting metacognition in entangled human-AI interaction to navigate cognitive-behavioral drift" arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01959 Happy to see this new work coming to the surface alongside @cabels18.bsky.social @lorenzspreen.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social 🧵

In light of the assault on American science by its own government that launched in January this year, we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook in June to provide some guidance to scholars about how to respond to an emerging autocracy. The handbook is available at: sks.to/autocracy. 1/n 1/4

New research out!🚨 In our new paper, we discuss how generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT can mediate confirmation bias in health information seeking. As people turn to these tools for health-related queries, new risks emerge. 🧵👇 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, such as ChatGPT, are transforming how individuals access health information, offering conversational and highly personalized interactions. Whi...

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza

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Great coverage by @sciam.bsky.social of our research on how ChatGPT is influencing the words we use in conversation! Work led by Hiromu Yakura & @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation

Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts

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New paper out! 📣 We explore GenAI’s hypercustomization capabilities, the behavioral and governance challenges they may introduce in the foreseeable future, and potential strategies to address them.

Christoph Abels@cabels18.bsky.social · last yr.

Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone. We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You sound like ChatGPT -- that is what The Verge said about our recent preprint on how ChatGPT is reshaping human spoken communication. Chatbots are becoming a cultural medium and agent of cultural homogenisation. Is this inevitable, or can model diversity help? www.theverge.com/openai/68674...

You sound like ChatGPT

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

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I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Science is under a wide-ranging attack in the U.S. From arbitrary and catastrophic funding cuts to censorship based on keywords, scholarship is no longer free from government interference. How can scientists respond? 1/n

My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/n

Free speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate information

True to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” t...

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🚨Press release🚨 How can LLMs help and hurt collective intelligence? Interdisciplinary team of 28 scientists led by our associate researcher @jasonburton.bsky.social proposes recommendations for action (Nature Human Behaviour) www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...

How can we make the best possible use of large language models for a smarter and more inclusive society?

Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ChatGPT. An article recently published in Nature H...

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Jason W. Burton@jasonburton.bsky.social · 2y ago

There's been lots of speculation about potential societal impacts of LLMs 🌍 In a new Nature Human Behaviour (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) article, I and 27 researchers argue that we should be thinking about those impacts through the lens of collective intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper by Dawn Holford et al., in collaboration with ARC's Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez @eloplop.bsky.social 🚨 This study reveals the psychological "attitude roots" behind negative vaccine views by analyzing 556 self-expressed reasons 👇Check it out for more details! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identifying the underlying psychological constructs from self-expressed anti-vaccination argumentation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Identifying the underlying psychological constructs from self-expressed anti-vaccination argumentation

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AI is even changing how we speak...? A recent study in collaboration with ARC's Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez @eloplop.bsky.social shows a significant rise in words associated with ChatGPT using 280,000+ YouTube videos. 👇Check out the preprint and explore the feedback loops between AI and human culture.

Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان@iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 preprint 🚨 Can ChatGPT influence the way we speak to each other? I.e. can they shape human culture? We transcribed and analyzed 300k YouTube videos to see if humans increased the use of words like 'delve' and 'adept,' which are known to be overused by ChatGPT. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

🚨 preprint 🚨 Can ChatGPT influence the way we speak to each other? I.e. can they shape human culture? We transcribed and analyzed 300k YouTube videos to see if humans increased the use of words like 'delve' and 'adept,' which are known to be overused by ChatGPT. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents now interact with billions of humans in natural language, thanks to advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. This raises the question of whether...

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Misinformation remains a threat to democracy. nature.com/articles/d41... @lewan.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think

In today’s polarized political climate, researchers who combat mistruths have come under attack and been labelled as unelected arbiters of truth. But the fight against misinformation is valid, warrant...

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Our first day of SciBeh 's Virtual Workshop 2024 on "Epistemic Boundaries" is almost over! Missed day 1? No worries! You can still join us for Day 2's insightful talks and discussions. Details and sign-up here: www.scibeh.org/events/works...

Interested in the boundaries of expertise? Join us at SciBeh on March 6 & 7, 2024 for an engaging virtual workshop. www.scibeh.org/events/works...