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The Hidden AI Race: Tracking Environmental Costs of Innovation
Shyam Agarwal, Mahasweta Chakraborti
The past decade has seen a massive rise in the popularity of AI systems, mainly owing to the developments in Gen AI, which has revolutionized numerous industries and applications.…
A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1
We study how open source communities describe participation and control through version controlled governance documents. Using a corpus of 710 projects with paired snapshots, we pa…
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang +1
Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-…
Responsible AI in Open Ecosystems: Reconciling Innovation with Risk Assessment and Disclosure
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Bert Joseph Prestoza, Nicholas Vincent +1
The rapid scaling of AI has spurred a growing emphasis on ethical considerations in both development and practice. This has led to the formulation of increasingly sophisticated mod…
NLP4Gov: A Comprehensive Library for Computational Policy Analysis
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Sailendra Akash Bonagiri, Santiago Virgüez-Ruiz +1
Formal rules and policies are fundamental in formally specifying a social system: its operation, boundaries, processes, and even ontology. Recent scholarship has highlighted the ro…
Do We Run How We Say We Run? Formalization and Practice of Governance in OSS Communities
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Curtis Atkisson, Stefan Stanciulescu +2
Open Source Software (OSS) communities often resist regulation typical of traditional organizations. Yet formal governance systems are being increasingly adopted among communities,…
Deconstructing written rules and hierarchy in peer produced software communities
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Beril Bulat, Qiankun Zhong +2
We employ recent advances in computational institutional analysis and NLP to investigate the systems of authority that are reflected in the written policy documents of the ASF. Our…
Open Source Software Sustainability: Combining Institutional Analysis and Socio-Technical Networks
Likang Yin, Mahasweta Chakraborty, Charles Schweik +2
Open Source Software (OSS) forms much of the fabric of our digital society, especially successful and sustainable ones. But many OSS projects do not become sustainable, resulting i…
Insta-VAX: A Multimodal Benchmark for Anti-Vaccine and Misinformation Posts Detection on Social Media
Mingyang Zhou, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Sijia Qian +2
Sharing of anti-vaccine posts on social media, including misinformation posts, has been shown to create confusion and reduce the publics confidence in vaccines, leading to vaccine…