activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.HC2026

Improving Explanations: Applying the Feature Understandability Scale for Cost-Sensitive Feature Selection

Nicola Rossberg, Bennett Kleinberg, Barry O'Sullivan +2

With the growing pervasiveness of artificial intelligence, the ability to explain the inferences made by machine learning models has become increasingly important. Numerous techniq…

cs.CY2026

Human attribution of empathic behaviour to AI systems

Jonas Festor, Ivo Snels, Bennett Kleinberg

Artificial intelligence systems increasingly generate text intended to provide social and emotional support. Understanding how users perceive empathic qualities in such content is…

cs.CL2025

When lies are mostly truthful: automated verbal deception detection for embedded lies

Riccardo Loconte, Bennett Kleinberg

Background: Verbal deception detection research relies on narratives and commonly assumes statements as truthful or deceptive. A more realistic perspective acknowledges that the ve…

cs.CL2024

Linguistic traces of stochastic empathy in language models

Bennett Kleinberg, Jari Zegers, Jonas Festor +4

Differentiating generated and human-written content is increasingly difficult. We examine how an incentive to convey humanness and task characteristics shape this human vs AI race…

cs.AI2024

Cognitive phantoms in LLMs through the lens of latent variables

Sanne Peereboom, Inga Schwabe, Bennett Kleinberg

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly reach real-world applications, necessitating a better understanding of their behaviour. Their size and complexity complicate traditional a…