New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" 🔍 Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982

📢 By overwhelming demand, submission deadline has been heroically extended to September 2nd (AoE) 🎉 Same deadline for ARR commits.

👉Direct: openreview.net/group?id=EMN...
👉ARR: openreview.net/group?id=EMN...

So… sharpen your arguments, polish those experiments and plead your papers⚖️📚

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

All developed resources are publicly available on HuggingFace under a single collection: huggingface.co/collections/.... Our code is available at: github.com/coastalcph/p... [The End] 5/5

Lastly, we conduct a small-scale OOD exploratory evaluation using European political speeches. RoBERTa’s performance severely drops due to overfitting, while Qwen 3 and Gemini 2.5 achieve comparable results and outperform RoBERTa by ~10%, showcasing robustness across domains. 4/5

Our analysis of a large collection of Trump’s campaign speeches (2015 -2025) reveals: (a) a decline in populist rhetoric over time, (b) no meaningful difference in populist intensity between swing/non-swing states, and (c) populism is concentrated towards the end of a speech. 3/5

We examine whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release datasets and evaluate a range of large language models across multiple prompting paradigms. 2/5

New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

My research will center on three key areas: (a) NLP for Political Science, (b) AI & Society, beginning with critical challenges in AI alignment, and (c) NLP for Law.

Reach out if you're interested in any of the above 👆
I'm glad to share more and listen to your ideas 😇 2/2

I’m thrilled to share that, starting today, I’ve officially rejoined the University of Copenhagen as an Assistant Professor.

I'm looking forward to new projects and collaborations, with a focus on expanding my research into computational social science. A new paper is coming very soon! 1/2

🎉 The Call for Papers for the 7th NLLP workshop at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social is out! 📢

🌐 Fully updated CfP: nllpw.org/workshop/call/
🗓️Submission deadline: 26 August

📧If you'd like to help out with reviewing, please contact us at [email protected]

Looking forward to your papers #NLProc

In short, the Llama 4 System Prompt is 101 the mantra of Trump vol. 2; heavily concentrated around "anti-wokeness" and "freedom of speech" at all costs. 2/2

The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs

@theguardian.com portrays Makis Voridis as simply a "former right-wing activist"; the guy who co-led neo-fascist groups with the Greek junta dictator (Papadopoulos), the leader of Neo-nazi Golden Down (Michaloliakos), and the Holocaust denialist (Pleuris) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Hello 🦋, my recent work "Investigating LLMs as Voting 🗳️ Assistants via Contextual Augmentation: A Case Study on the 🇪🇺 European Parliament Elections 2024" has been accepted at #EMNLP2024 🌴. 📑 Preprint 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.08495