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Legacy Procurement Practices Shape How U.S. Cities Govern AI: Understanding Government Employees' Practices, Challenges, and Needs
Nari Johnson, Elise Silva, Harrison Leon +4
Most AI tools adopted by governments are not developed internally, but instead are acquired from third-party vendors in a process called public procurement. In this paper, we condu…
'Simulacrum of Stories': Examining Large Language Models as Qualitative Research Participants
Shivani Kapania, William Agnew, Motahhare Eslami +2
The recent excitement around generative models has sparked a wave of proposals suggesting the replacement of human participation and labor in research and development--e.g., throug…
"It Might be Technically Impressive, But It's Practically Useless to us": Motivations, Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cross-Functional Collaboration around AI within the News Industry
Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon +2
Recently, an increasing number of news organizations have integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into their workflows, leading to a further influx of AI technologists and data wor…
Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities
Jane Hsieh, Angie Zhang, Seyun Kim +7
Platform-based laborers face unprecedented challenges and working conditions that result from algorithmic opacity, insufficient data transparency, and unclear policies and regulati…
Public Technologies Transforming Work of the Public and the Public Sector
Seyun Kim, Bonnie Fan, Willa Yunqi Yang +5
Technologies adopted by the public sector have transformed the work practices of employees in public agencies by creating different means of communication and decision-making. Alth…
The Fall of an Algorithm: Characterizing the Dynamics Toward Abandonment
Nari Johnson, Sanika Moharana, Christina N. Harrington +3
As more algorithmic systems have come under scrutiny for their potential to inflict societal harms, an increasing number of organizations that hold power over harmful algorithms ha…
The Future of Research on Social Technologies: CCC Workshop Visioning Report
Motahhare Eslami, Eric Gilbert, Sarita Schoenebeck +9
Social technologies are the systems, interfaces, features, infrastructures, and architectures that allow people to interact with each other online. These technologies dramatically…
Children's Overtrust and Shifting Perspectives of Generative AI
Jaemarie Solyst, Ellia Yang, Shixian Xie +3
The capabilities of generative AI (genAI) have dramatically increased in recent times, and there are opportunities for children to leverage new features for personal and school-rel…
Breaking Political Filter Bubbles via Social Comparison
Nouran Soliman, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios
Online social platforms allow users to filter out content they do not like. According to selective exposure theory, people tend to view content they agree with more to get more sel…