3 papers
cs.CY2026
Modeling AI Overreliance as a Complex Adaptive System
Ahana Biswas
Whether AI assistance helps or harms a population depends less on the model's accuracy than on whether people rely on it appropriately trusting it when it is right and checking it…
physics.soc-ph2026
Regimes of Influence under Trust-Distrust Gating
Razieh Masoumi, Ahana Biswas, Yu-Ru Lin
In many social communities, individuals can simultaneously trust and distrust the same source, a feature standard opinion-dynamics models often ignore. We formalize this ambivalenc…
cs.SI2026
From Attention to Dialogue: Does Audience Engagement Reinforce Constructive Cross-Party Communication?
Ahana Biswas, Yu-Ru Lin
While existing works have emphasized how elites shape mass opinion, we ask whether the reverse also holds: do audience reactions on social media actively shape elite behavior? We e…