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Daniel S. Schiff
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Assist. Professor @purduepolsci & Co-Director of Governance & Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). Studying #AI policy and #AIEthics. Secretary for @IEEE 7010 standard.

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GRAIL @grailcenter.bsky.social · Aug 20
Tejasvi Nallagundla (@GRAILatPurdue) explores new U.S. Copyright Office guidance in the AI Policy Corner. The update makes clear: only human creative input can earn copyright prompt-only AI output isn’t protected. #AIpolicy #ResponsibleAI #DigitalPolicy
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AI Policy Corner: U.S. Copyright Guidance on Works Created with AI | Montreal AI Ethics Institute
✍️ By Tejasvi Nallagundla. Tejasvi is an Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Global Studies and an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab…
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
7/7 I hope you've found this thread helpful. Follow me @dschiff.bsky.social for more research on AI governance and public opinion.

This paper is for anyone in #TechPolicy, #PoliticalScience, and #PublicEngagement.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/pol...

#AIpolicy #AgendaSetting

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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
6/7 🤔 Implications: There's broad consensus that we need more public participation to guide AI. But results suggest these calls may be underrealized. Policymakers may engage in a form of confirmation bias, amplifying public discourse only when it aligns with economic priorities.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
5/7 📈 Finding 2 (The Catch): This public influence ONLY holds for the innovation frame. When the public discusses AI's economic potential, policymakers listen. When the public discusses AI ethics or security, we see no statistically significant influence on policymakers.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
4/7 📈 Finding 1: Public attention does predict policymaker attention.

The time-series analysis (ARIMA + VAR) shows that a one standard deviation increase in public tweets about AI is associated with a 22.4% increase in Congressional messaging on AI that same week.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
3/7 🔧 Methods: My text-as-data approach involved analyzing a dataset of ~5 million tweets using the #AI hashtag and comparing them to all AI-related tweets from the 115th and 116th U.S. Congresses (2017–2019).

This research was conducted at @GRAILcenter.bsky.social and @purduepolsci.bsky.social.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
2/7 I focused on three dominant ways people frame AI:

📈 Innovation: AI as a driver of economic growth & productivity.
🙏 Ethics: AI's impact on fairness, rights, bias, and safety.
⚔️ Competition: AI in the context of the US-China race.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
1/7 Does the public actually influence policymakers on #AIpolicy? My paper in @policysociety.bsky.social used 5 million tweets + @nytimes.com articles to find out.

The answer is yes, but with a huge catch that has major implications for #AIethics. 🧵

Link: doi.org/10.1093/pol...
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Aug 4
1/7 Does the public actually influence policymakers on #AIpolicy? My paper in @policysociety.bsky.social used 5 million tweets + @nytimes.com articles to find out.

The answer is yes, but with a huge catch that has major implications for #AIethics. 🧵

Link: doi.org/10.1093/pol...
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
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#CommunityEngagement #SocialResponsibility #HigherEducation #StudentDevelopment #EthicsEd
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
11/12 For educators, university leaders, student affairs professionals, and those concerned about STEM ethics education: this research highlights how structured engagement can shape the next generation of professionals.

Study funded by NSF. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/030...
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
10/12 Our results suggest that different types of CE serve different purposes. Discipline-based CE (courses, internships) can build professional ethics, while peer-based CE may be vital for more holistic growth.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
9/12 ✨ Implications: It's not enough to just *hope* students will become more socially responsible or ethically engaged. Universities must be intentional. Community engagement appears to be a potential tool to reverse this trend.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
8/12 Crucially, this latter effect was especially pronounced for non-White students, suggesting peer interaction can be a key driver of equity-related development.

Another note: Women have higher SR scores than men consistently
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
7/12 🤝 Second, peer-based CE (like service through extracurriculars and through student groups).

This type of engagement does predict growth in overall social responsibility.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
6/12 🏛️ But not all CE is the same. A novel part of our study was splitting CE into two types.

First, discipline-based CE (like professional internships). This type of engagement appears to foster professional dimensions of social responsibility, but not overall SR attitudes.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
5/12 🌱 But there’s a potential counter-force: Community Engagement (CE).

Our key finding: students who participated more in community engagement showed significant growth in social responsibility attitudes, even after accounting for their pre-college views (and demographics).
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
4/12 Worse, when asked about future job priorities, the importance of "salary" went up, while the importance of "helping people" went down.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
3/12 We used the Generalized Professional Responsibility Assessment (GPRA) to measure changes in their attitudes.

📉 Finding 1: Stagnant attitudes & shifting priorities.

Over two years, students' social responsibility scores remained flat.
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
2/12 🔧 How we studied this (with Jonna Lee, Jason Borenstein & Ellen Zegura at Ga Tech):

We ran a longitudinal study, surveying a cohort of 128 mostly STEM students both before they started college (2017) and again near the midpoint of their studies (2019).
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · Jul 11
1/12 🧵 Does college actually make students more socially responsible?

You might think so. But our new study in Studies in Higher Ed (doi.org/10.1080/030...) finds students' sense of social responsibility actually stagnates (or declines). 👇

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Policy Studies Journal @psjeditor.bsky.social · Jun 17
Can policy narratives be as effective as expert analysis in technical policy domains like AI? This open-access PSJ article says yes!

By @dschiff.bsky.social and Kaylyn Jackson Schiff

Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
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