From the 1 of 12 linked papers with an AI index.
12 papers
The Agentic Web Requires New Normative Infrastructure
Cameron Pattison, Matthew Boulos, Noam Kolt +3
The paper discusses how the emerging "agentic web," where AI agents act on users' behalf online, is hindered by outdated laws and platform policies, and calls for new societal norm…
Whose Values? Measuring the (Subjective) Expression of Basic Human Values in Social Media
Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Tiziano Piccardi +4
The value alignment of sociotechnical systems has become a central debate, but progress depends on how human values are perceived in the content these systems surface and how such…
Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi +4
While social media feed rankings are primarily driven by engagement signals rather than any explicit value system, the resulting algorithmic feeds are not value-neutral: engagement…
Social Media Feed Elicitation
Lindsay Popowski, Xiyuan Wu, Charlotte Zhu +2
Social media users have repeatedly advocated for control over the currently opaque operations of feed algorithms. Large language models (LLMs) now offer the promise of custom-defin…
Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia +3
Social media plays a central role in shaping public opinion and behavior, yet performing experiments on these platforms and, in particular, on feed algorithms is becoming increasin…
Permission Manifests for Web Agents
Samuele Marro, Alan Chan, Xinxing Ren +12
The rise of Large Language Model (LLM)-based web agents represents a significant shift in automated interactions with the web. Unlike traditional crawlers that follow simple conven…