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

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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.
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nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

🚨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...

🚨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...

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.

🚨 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

Misinformation remains a threat to democracy.

nature.com/articles/d41...

@lewan.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

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