🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

'AI wordt de fundering van economie, defensie, zorg, onderwijs en alles wat onze samenleving draaiende houdt. Als we die systemen niet zelf bouwen en begrijpen, raken we de regie over onze toekomst kwijt.’ @mbakker.bsky.social @jelleprins.com @nrc.nl #technologie www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

This was such a fun project to work on, with the incredible @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social 🥳

New preprint with @lukethorburn.com, Andrew Konya, Ariel Procaccia and others 🚨

Starting soon! Join us at 4 pm EST for a discussion The Peacemaking Machine with MIT & Deepmind's MH Tessler & @mbakker.bsky.social discussing how AI can transform democratic deliberation w/ @ bethnoveck @burnescenter.bsky.social @thegovlab.org rebootdemocracy.ai/events

Everyone going to SJDM this weekend, come to our special session on using #LLMs in #JDM research on Monday at 9:45am (location = Empire Complex)! w/ @kobihackenburg.bsky.social Hope Schroeder and myself - presentations from us but also hopefully lots of discussion/Q&A with all of you!

Cool preprint creating "supernotes": LLM-generated community notes that synthesise info from several existing notes.