New Nature paper with the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social! Digital technologies are shaping the public sphere but were not designed as democratic infrastructure. We propose aligning social technologies with democratic principles of inclusivity, fairness, & representativeness. rdcu.be/fqnyw

We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI. "The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves." www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

Very cool to receive the Japanese edition of the Psychology of Misinformation!

🧠 Запрошуємо взяти участь у дослідженні про те, як соціальні мережі впливають на поведінку людей у контексті війни росії проти України. 🎁 Учасники, які завершать всі частини дослідження, зможуть взяти участь у розіграші призів 👉 Долучитися: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Ukraine

LLMs need immunization to protect against misinformation! New out in The Lancet Digital Health with the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social where we argue that AI systems should be inoculated against misinformation! We offer three broad ways to inoculate LLMs www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science. (Folco Panizza, @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Jon Roozenbeek, @nature.com) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cool/important job alert: Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team for the area of knowledge integrity Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

WhatsApp responded to the findings of our new Cambridge Trust and Safety index: "WhatsApp said in a statement that it welcomed the research into an industry it said was "aiming to mislead internet services." Unsurprisingly, X did not return messages seeking comment www.reuters.com/business/med...

Press release www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pric...

New paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Yara Kyrychenko's PhD explores how social media and social technology can be used to promote pro-social behaviour rather than to stoke divisions - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/t... @uniofcam.bsky.social @kingscollege.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards in Artificial Intelligence! 🎉 awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-c...

Congratulations to @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social for being short-listed as a finalist for the Women of the Future Awards in AI! Yara is a massively brilliant scholar so proud 👏 🥳 "For eighteen years, the awards have shone a light on trailblazing women" awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-c...

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

Excited to be part of the Riga StratCom Dialogue this year!

We wrote an article about the rise of AI slop and the 'enshittification' of the internet for @theconversation.com with the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social One of these days, these bots are gonna walk all over you! theconversation.com/what-is-ai-s...

Today at #TheWebConf: C3AI – Crafting & Evaluating Constitutions for AI How should we actually write rules for AI? C3AI provides a way to: 1. Design effective constitutions using psychology and public input. 2. Evaluate how well fine-tuned models actually follow the rules.

Does communicating the scientific consensus on climate change inspire support for action? In a new meta-analysis of the GBM (n = 12,975) we find that scientific consensus increases support for climate action directly & indirectly across the political spectrum! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it). Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Here’s my account on Flashes, a photo sharing app. All my followers can automatically find me as soon as they log in! This is what we mean when we say Bluesky is open: your identity and followers belong to you. It took 30s to sign up for this new, independent app, and everything is there.

Are you bored this weekend? Can I interest you in some of the freshest thinking coming out of the academy today? Try ePODstemology! Our latest episode is Cambridge's Yara Kyrychenko on socially responsible AI.

Had a great time on ePODstemology talking with @markfabian.bsky.social about my research on socially responsible AI. Tune in! 🎙️🤖

Great to see the Climate Change Committee (CCC) calling for public figures to “lead by example” on climate change, citing our research. CCC says leading by example increases public buy-in and behaviour change @thecccuk.bsky.social 🚨So, we've made this new infographic showing how it works... 🧵

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...

Absolute honor to receive the Vice-Chancellor's Research Impact Award. Thank you Prof Prentice & the whole panel. Our lab at Cambridge has been working many years empowering people to spot misinformation, reaching over half a billion people. Thanks for this recognition🙏 www.cam.ac.uk/public-engag...

Systematic evidence will generate higher-quality behavioral insights that could be integrated into climate policy, life cycle assessments, and economic models. We offered some suggestions for this in our paper. @cameronbrick.bsky.social @colognaviktoria.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tiktok boosted Republican messages 11.8% more than Democrat messages during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race according to this new study that employed bots to view ~394,000 videos.

“There is no theory crisis in psychological science” Few quotes…🧵

🧪 "Humanity's Last Exam" sets a new benchmark for AI: 3,000 expert-crafted questions spanning 100+ subjects. Current LLMs perform poorly, revealing a gap in expert-level knowledge and calibration, but it would be difficult to build a harder test. 🩺💻 #MLSky

🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

In this new article in American Psychologist we respond to critics in detail and clarify two key points for the field; (1) The prevalence of misinformation in society is substantial when properly defined. (2) Misinformation causally impacts attitudes and behaviors. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

📢 @savcisens.com discusses a recent study that shows that LLMs exhibit social identity biases similar to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🔓https://rdcu.be/d5owe

Thank @savcisens.com for the insightful review of our recent paper! Great new year’s present 🎉

New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:

1/9 🧵 New paper alert (now in Nature Computational Science)! As polarisation continues to shape our world, we asked: Do social and political biases transfer to our AI? I.e. do LLMs show ingroup and outgroup bias? www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New blog by Tiancheng Hu & Yara Kyrychenko on their new research findings on AI models and bias, including that chatbots that interact with humans show less bias than human users - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/a...

Here is a very brief summary for @gatescambridge.bsky.social News with @tiancheng.bsky.social: www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/a...

🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New paper in Nature Comp Reviews led by the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & @tiancheng.bsky.social 👉LLMs exhibit group identity biases. Across 77 LLMs, most “we” (ingroup) prompts yielded more positive while “they” (outgroup) returned more negative sentiment www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌟We are thrilled to announce the publication of our Special Issue: From Vulnerability to Vigilance. This issue brings together 11 impactful articles on psychological resilience against misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. advances.in/psychology/1...

What predicts engagement on social media during violent intergroup conflicts? In our new paper we find that ingroup solidarity trumps outgroup hatred in Ukraine following Russia's invasion! New in @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New Preprint: "Generative language models exhibit social identity biases" Did you know LLMs mirror human-like biases, showing human-levels of ingroup solidarity & outgroup hostility? @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @steverathje.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2310.15819