5 papers
AI and Collective Decisions: Strengthening Legitimacy and Losers' Consent
Suyash Fulay, Prerna Ravi, Emily Kubin +3
AI is increasingly used to scale collective decision-making, but far less attention has been paid to how such systems can support procedural legitimacy, particularly the conditions…
Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice
Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Suyash Fulay +3
Deliberative democratic theory suggests that civic competence: the capacity to navigate disagreement, weigh competing values, and arrive at collective decisions is not innate but d…
Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video
Shayne Longpre, Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep +40
Progress in AI is driven largely by the scale and quality of training data. Despite this, there is a deficit of empirical analysis examining the attributes of well-established data…
Bridging Context Gaps: Enhancing Comprehension in Long-Form Social Conversations Through Contextualized Excerpts
Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Xuan, Jacob Jobraeel +3
We focus on enhancing comprehension in small-group recorded conversations, which serve as a medium to bring people together and provide a space for sharing personal stories and exp…
On the Relationship between Truth and Political Bias in Language Models
Suyash Fulay, William Brannon, Shrestha Mohanty +4
Language model alignment research often attempts to ensure that models are not only helpful and harmless, but also truthful and unbiased. However, optimizing these objectives simul…