22 papers
string2string Studio: An Interactive, In-Browser Platform for String-to-String Algorithms
Mirac Suzgun, James Zou, Stuart M. Shieber +1
We present string2string Studio, an interactive in-browser platform for string-to-string analysis across natural language processing, computational biology, and the digital humanit…
You Talkin to Me?: A Network Analysis of Gendered Speaker-Addressee Patterns in Film Screenplays
Samin Khan, Camilla Griffiths, Shrikanth Narayanan +2
Objective: This paper investigates the gendered structure of speaker addressee relationships in film dialogue, asking not merely who speaks, but who is spoken to and how conversati…
Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
Rishi Bommasani, Sarah H. Bana, Kathleen A. Creel +2
Many employers screen job applicants with algorithms built by the same few algorithm vendors. We hypothesize that algorithmic monoculture leads to the same individuals and members…
Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI interaction
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to boost human productivity by speeding up task completion -- provided users know when to offload cognitive work to them. But we do…
Evaluating Commercial AI Chatbots as News Intermediaries
Mirac Suzgun, Emily Shen, Federico Bianchi +5
AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integratio…
The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
People are increasingly turning to AI assistance for simple tasks, e.g., arithmetic, spell-check, and answering simple questions. But does AI assistance actually save users time an…