3 papers
cs.CY2026
When Should AI Read the Room? Public Perceptions of Social Intelligence in AI Agents
Leena Mathur, Jenny T. Liang, Vasudha Varadarajan +6
AI researchers have been advancing socially intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) across embodiments, from chatbots to physical robots. As Social-AI is increasingly deployed in everyda…
cs.CL2025
ALFA: Aligning LLMs to Ask Good Questions A Case Study in Clinical Reasoning
Shuyue Stella Li, Jimin Mun, Faeze Brahman +7
Large language models (LLMs) often fail to ask effective questions under uncertainty, making them unreliable in domains where proactive information-gathering is essential for decis…
cs.CY2025
Why (not) use AI? Analyzing People's Reasoning and Conditions for AI Acceptability
Jimin Mun, Wei Bin Au Yeong, Wesley Hanwen Deng +2
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the need to incorporate lay-people's input into the governance and acceptability assessment of AI usage. However, how and w…