3 papers
cs.CY2026
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…
cs.CY2025
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…
cs.IR2025
Recommendation and Temptation
Md Sanzeed Anwar, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Grant Schoenebeck
Traditional recommender systems based on revealed preferences often fail to capture the fundamental duality in user behavior, where consumption choices are driven by both inherent…