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most citedAnticipating Impacts: Using Large-Scale Scenario Writing to Explore Diverse Implications of Generative AI in the News Environment

4 citations · 12 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Trade-Offs in Deploying Legal AI: Insights from a Public Opinion Study to Guide AI Risk Management

Kimon Kieslich, Sophie Morosoli, Nicholas Diakopoulos +1

Generative AI tools are increasingly used for legal tasks, including legal research, drafting documents, and even for legal decision-making. As for other purposes, the use of GenAI…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Not Wrong, But Untrue: LLM Overconfidence in Document-Based Queries

Nick Hagar, Wilma Agustianto, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in newsroom workflows, but their tendency to hallucinate poses risks to core journalistic practices of sourcing, attribution, and…

cs.IR2025

On-Premise AI for the Newsroom: Evaluating Small Language Models for Investigative Document Search

Nick Hagar, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Jeremy Gilbert

Investigative journalists routinely confront large document collections. Large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities promise to accelerate t…

cs.HC2025

LLM-Assisted News Discovery in High-Volume Information Streams: A Case Study

Nick Hagar, Ethan Silver, Clare Spencer +1

Journalists face mounting challenges in monitoring ever-expanding digital information streams to identify newsworthy content. While traditional automation tools gather information…

cs.CY2025

Informing AI Risk Assessment with News Media: Analyzing National and Political Variation in the Coverage of AI Risks

Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Risk-based approaches to AI governance often center the technological artifact as the primary focus of risk assessments, overlooking systemic risks that emerge from the complex int…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society

Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Jasmine Sinchai +1

Scenario building is an established method to anticipate the future of emerging technologies. Its primary goal is to use narratives to map future trajectories of technology develop…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Global Perspectives of AI Risks and Harms: Analyzing the Negative Impacts of AI Technologies as Prioritized by News Media

Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Emerging AI technologies have the potential to drive economic growth and innovation but can also pose significant risks to society. To mitigate these risks, governments, companies,…

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

Envisioning Stakeholder-Action Pairs to Mitigate Negative Impacts of AI: A Participatory Approach to Inform Policy Making

Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger +1

The potential for negative impacts of AI has rapidly become more pervasive around the world, and this has intensified a need for responsible AI governance. While many regulatory bo…

cs.CL2024

Towards Leveraging News Media to Support Impact Assessment of AI Technologies

Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Expert-driven frameworks for impact assessments (IAs) may inadvertently overlook the effects of AI technologies on the public's social behavior, policy, and the cultural and geogra…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Using Scenario-Writing for Identifying and Mitigating Impacts of Generative AI

Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Natali Helberger

Impact assessments have emerged as a common way to identify the negative and positive implications of AI deployment, with the goal of avoiding the downsides of its use. It is unden…

cs.CL2024

Simulating Policy Impacts: Developing a Generative Scenario Writing Method to Evaluate the Perceived Effects of Regulation

Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos

The rapid advancement of AI technologies yields numerous future impacts on individuals and society. Policymakers are tasked to react quickly and establish policies that mitigate th…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating the Capabilities of LLMs for Supporting Anticipatory Impact Assessment

Mowafak Allaham, Nicholas Diakopoulos

Gaining insight into the potential negative impacts of emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in society is a challenge for implementing anticipatory governance approac…

cs.CY2024

My Future with My Chatbot: A Scenario-Driven, User-Centric Approach to Anticipating AI Impacts

Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, Nicholas Diakopoulos

As a general purpose technology without a concrete pre-defined purpose, personal chatbots can be used for a whole range of objectives, depending on the personal needs, contexts, an…

cs.CY2023★ 4 cited

Anticipating Impacts: Using Large-Scale Scenario Writing to Explore Diverse Implications of Generative AI in the News Environment

Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Natali Helberger

The tremendous rise of generative AI has reached every part of society - including the news environment. There are many concerns about the individual and societal impact of the inc…