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

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

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

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