22 papers
Creating Group Rules with AI: Human-AI Collaboration in WhatsApp Moderation
Gauri Nayak, Farhana Shahid, Kiran Garimella +1
WhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging platforms globally, with billions of users sharing information in private groups. Yet, it offers little infrastructure to support…
PLURAL: A Global Dataset for Value Alignment
Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Tanya Goyal +1
Large language models (LLMs) are used worldwide, yet disproportionately reflect Western values, limiting their ability to represent diverse value systems. We introduce PLURAL, a la…
Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology
Cody Kommers, Ruth Ahnert, Maria Antoniak +35
Generative AI systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be measured rather than fundament…
Shiksha Copilot: Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kavyansh Chourasia +6
This study investigates Shiksha copilot, an AI-assisted lesson planning tool deployed in government schools across Karnataka, India. The system combined LLMs and human expertise th…
Designing Culturally Aligned AI Systems For Social Good in Non-Western Contexts
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Mohit Jain, Tanuja Ganu +1
AI technologies are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as education, healthcare, law, and agriculture to address complex challenges in non-Western contexts. This pap…
TALES: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Cultural Representations in LLM-generated Stories
Kirti Bhagat, Shaily Bhatt, Athul Velagapudi +3
Millions of users across the globe turn to AI chatbots for their creative needs, inviting widespread interest in understanding how they represent diverse cultures. However, evaluat…