One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Value misalignment in X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/V1Mg50ZFWnP For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/XjLl50ZFWnO.

I want to talk about why AI-based mass surveillance is so dangerous, and why I would oppose it no matter which party or president is in office.

Boston-area folks: I'm hosting a "build your own social app" hackathon next saturday @ MIT. No coding experience required! Learn about our vision for a "malleable social web" and help shape the new ecosystem :) Register here: social.wiki/Social.Wiki/...

Empirical evidence that people can build highly predictive mental models of even complex AIs, if and only if the algorithm fulfills three criteria:

Lindsay Popowski@popowski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

📣📣📣📣📣We CAN understand complex algorithms (under certain conditions) 🥳🥳🥳

Lindsay Popowski@popowski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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I’ve been lucky to get the chance to work with some incredibly creative and talented undergrad researchers through this program! Help us spread the word to students who might be interested!

Microsoft Research@msftresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

The Microsoft Research Undergraduate Internship Program offers 12-week internships in our Redmond, NYC, or New England labs for rising juniors and seniors who are passionate about technology. Apply by October 6: msft.it/6015scgSJ

I know I’m leaving but weird decision to bring it up in Tiziano’s post…

Lindsay Popowski@popowski.bsky.social · last yr.

what is stanford hci going to do without our funniest member next year?

tiziano slay

Tiziano Piccardi@tiziano.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

#CHI2025 = friends, friends, and friends (many not in the pics) 🥰 Research can be lonely, so moments like these are special! Thank you all for an amazing week of learning and fun. Hope to be back soon!!

I am presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) my TOCHI Microsoft work “Generation Probabilities Are Not Enough: Uncertainty Highlighting in AI Code Completions” at ~11:55am in G301 :) should be fun 🥳 work done w/ @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @adamfourney.bsky.social @gaganbansal.bsky.social 🤩

Jenn Wortman Vaughan@jennwv.bsky.social · last yr.

4. On Wednesday, @helenasresearch.bsky.social will present the TOCHI paper she led on the potential of uncertainty highlighting for fostering appropriate reliance on AI-powered code completion tools. Program link: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle! An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!

Stanford HCI @ Lake Tahoe retreat... 😍

YAY ❤️ big big thank you to my advisors and mentors— @mbernst.bsky.social @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @adamfourney.bsky.social @gaganbansal.bsky.social @arvind.bsky.social — you guys have shaped me more than can be described 🥺❤️

Michael Bernstein@mbernst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...

Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...