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most citedThe Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement

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cs.SI2026★ 1 cited

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement

Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41

We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…

cs.CY2025

Community by Design

E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar +3

Social media empower distributed content creation by algorithmically harnessing "the social fabric" (explicit and implicit signals of association) to serve this content. While this…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Views on AI aren't binary -- they're plural

Thorin Bristow, Luke Thorburn, Diana Acosta-Navas

Recent developments in AI have brought broader attention to tensions between two overlapping communities, "AI Ethics" and "AI Safety." In this article we (i) characterize this fals…

cs.MA2023

SHAPE: A Framework for Evaluating the Ethicality of Influence

Elfia Bezou-Vrakatseli, Benedikt Brückner, Luke Thorburn

Agents often exert influence when interacting with humans and non-human agents. However, the ethical status of such influence is often unclear. In this paper, we present the SHAPE…

cs.AI2021

Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI: Volume 2

OHAAI Collaboration, Andreas Brannstrom, Federico Castagna +13

This volume contains revised versions of the papers selected for the second volume of the Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI (OHAAI). Previously, formal theories of argument a…