4 papers
Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact
A Pranav, Vagrant Gautam, Martin Mundt +6
In academic publishing, names connect scholars to their work. When scholars change their names, including for marriage, academic recognition, or gender transition, they may lose cr…
Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
Abeba Birhane, Riccardo Angius, William Agnew +4
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the exten…
The Dynamics of Delusion: Modeling Bidirectional False Belief Amplification in Human-Chatbot Dialogue
Ashish Mehta, Jared Moore, Jacy Reese Anthis +6
There is growing concern that AI chatbots might fuel delusional beliefs in users. Some have suggested that humans and chatbots mutually reinforce false beliefs over time, but quant…
The Cake that is Intelligence and Who Gets to Bake it: An AI Analogy and its Implications for Participation
Martin Mundt, Anaelia Ovalle, Felix Friedrich +5
In a widely popular analogy by Turing Award Laureate Yann LeCun, machine intelligence has been compared to cake - where unsupervised learning forms the base, supervised learning ad…