5 papers
Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?
Hayoung Jung, Pedro Viana Diniz, José Reinaldo Corrêa Roveda +5
Scientific AI agents increasingly retrieve evidence, reason across sources, and synthesize conclusions used in consequential decisions. Yet, their ability to do so in high-stakes d…
Commercial Persuasion in AI-Mediated Conversations
Francesco Salvi, Alejandro Cuevas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a primary interface between users and the web, companies face growing economic incentives to embed commercial influence into AI-mediated conv…
Does Content Moderation Lead Users Away from Fringe Movements? Evidence from a Recovery Community
Giuseppe Russo, Maciej Styczen, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +1
Online platforms have sanctioned individuals and communities associated with fringe movements linked to hate speech, violence, and terrorism, but can these sanctions contribute to…
Could ChatGPT get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants
Beatriz Borges, Negar Foroutan, Deniz Bayazit +87
AI assistants are being increasingly used by students enrolled in higher education institutions. While these tools provide opportunities for improved teaching and education, they a…
Can Language Models Recognize Convincing Arguments?
Paula Rescala, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiancheng Hu +1
The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about their potential to create and propagate convincing narratives. Here, we study their performance in detec…