4 papers
Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Foreclosure?
David Gamba, Daniel M. Romero, Grant Schoenebeck
Agentic AI promises systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to selecting services. Whether it will empower users is an open question, an…
The Persistence of Retracted Papers on Wikipedia
Haohan Shi, Yulin Yu, Daniel M. Romero +1
Wikipedia serves as a key infrastructure for public access to scientific knowledge, but it faces challenges in maintaining the credibility of cited sources--especially when scienti…
The Ideological Turing Test for Moderation of Outgroup Affective Animosity
David Gamba, Daniel M. Romero, Grant Schoenebeck
Rising animosity toward ideological opponents poses critical societal challenges. We introduce and test the Ideological Turing Test, a gamified framework requiring participants to…
Signals in the Noise: Decoding Unexpected Engagement Patterns on Twitter
Yulin Yu, Houming Chen, Daniel Romero +1
Social media platforms offer users multiple ways to engage with content--likes, retweets, and comments--creating a complex signaling system within the attention economy. While prev…