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most citedWhich Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations

9 citations · 27 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions

Saffron Huang, Esin Durmus, Miles McCain +7

AI assistants can impart value judgments that shape people's decisions and worldviews, yet little is known empirically about what values these systems rely on in practice. To addre…

cs.CY2025★ 9 cited

Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations

Kunal Handa, Alex Tamkin, Miles McCain +12

Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used f…

cs.CY2024★ 8 cited

Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use

Alex Tamkin, Miles McCain, Kunal Handa +18

How are AI assistants being used in the real world? While model providers in theory have a window into this impact via their users' data, both privacy concerns and practical challe…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Appropriately Abstain with Semantic Entropy

Benedict Aaron Tjandra, Muhammed Razzak, Jannik Kossen +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to hallucinate, whereby they generate plausible but inaccurate text. This phenomenon poses significant risks in critical applications, such a…

cs.CL2024

Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models

Kunal Handa, Yarin Gal, Ellie Pavlick +4

Aligning AI systems to users' interests requires understanding and incorporating humans' complex values and preferences. Recently, language models (LMs) have been used to gather in…

cs.LG2023

Emergence of Abstract State Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling

Tian Yun, Zilai Zeng, Kunal Handa +4

Decision making via sequence modeling aims to mimic the success of language models, where actions taken by an embodied agent are modeled as tokens to predict. Despite their promisi…

cs.CL2023

"Mistakes Help Us Grow": Facilitating and Evaluating Growth Mindset Supportive Language in Classrooms

Kunal Handa, Margaret Clapper, Jessica Boyle +4

Teachers' growth mindset supportive language (GMSL)--rhetoric emphasizing that one's skills can be improved over time--has been shown to significantly reduce disparities in academi…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

Task Ambiguity in Humans and Language Models

Alex Tamkin, Kunal Handa, Avash Shrestha +1

Language models have recently achieved strong performance across a wide range of NLP benchmarks. However, unlike benchmarks, real world tasks are often poorly specified, and agents…