Jiayin Zhi
@jiayinzhi.bsky.social
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PhDing @UChicago | HCI & AI | AI + Human Cognition + Society
Excited to see our paper featured in several media outlets โ including a TIME article
time.com/article/2026...
More on the project website:
criticalthinking-ai.app
Check the full paper ๐:
arxiv.org/abs/2603.08849
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๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ? Itโs one of the most pressing questions around AI. But maybe the better one is: ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ? In our
#CHI2026
paper, we find that ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ changes everything. ๐
criticalthinking-ai.app
#criticalthinking
#decisionmaking
#civicparticipation
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How does AI impact our critical thinking?
What's AI's actual impact on people's critical thinking performance? AI doesnโt inherently help or harm critical thinking โ it depends on time constraints.
https://criticalthinking-ai.app/
about 1 month ago
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Richard Jean So
about 2 months ago
Excited to share this new paper - accepted at CHI - testing the affordances of AI assistance for literary-cultural interpretation or "close reading" w/
@jiayinzhi.bsky.social
@mnlee.bsky.social
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@hoytlong.bsky.social
. Can AI help students/people interpret cultural objects?
arxiv.org/html/2603.06...
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What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation
https://arxiv.org/html/2603.06855v1
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๐ช๐๐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐? In our new
#CHI2026
paper, we studied how AI assistance affects close reading poems โ not just how well people interpret poems, but also the pleasure derived from close reading.
closereading-ai.app
#AI
#HCI
#closereading
#humanities
#culture
#poetry
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[AI and Close Reading] Can AI help us interpret culture?
AI is already becoming part of how people read cultural texts online. What does AI do for cultural interpretation? We explored this question in a randomized experiment investigating the impact of AI a...
https://closereading-ai.app/
about 2 months ago
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Jiayin Zhi
Los Angeles Times
4 months ago
Autodesk to cut 1,000 workers as the tech company bets on AI
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Autodesk to cut 1,000 workers as the tech company bets on AI
The San Francisco-based company said it's slashing roughly 7% of its global workforce.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-23/autodesk-to-cut-1-000-workers-as-tech-company-bets-on-ai
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Timothy Caulfield
4 months ago
Deep reading can boost your critical thinking & help you resist misinformation
theconversation.com/deep-reading...
"...deep reading can be an effective way to counter misinformation as well as reduce stress and loneliness." Key: Engaging "in critical, analytical & empathetic ways."
#TeamReading
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Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation โ hereโs how to build the skill
Reading comprehension scores are tanking, and fewer Americans are picking up books. But practicing deep reading can help you process content more carefully and keep you from falling for misinformation...
https://theconversation.com/deep-reading-can-boost-your-critical-thinking-and-help-you-resist-misinformation-heres-how-to-build-the-skill-268082?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Cella
7 months ago
โจIโm on the academic job market โจ Iโm a PhD candidate at
@hcii.cmu.edu
studying tech, labor, and resistance ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐ช๐ฝ๐ฅ I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info:
cella.io
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Cella M. Sum โ
https://cella.io
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