3 papers
cs.CY2026
Using Games to Learn How Large Language Models Work
Allison Chen, Isabella Pu
While artificial intelligence (AI) technology is becoming increasingly popular, its underlying mechanisms tend to remain opaque to most people. To address this gap, the field of AI…
cs.HC2026
Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them
Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Angel Franyutti +4
How might messages about large language models (LLMs) found in public discourse influence the way people think about and interact with these models? To explore this question, we ra…
cs.HC2025
Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies
Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Q. Vera Liao +2
Large language models (LLMs) can produce erroneous responses that sound fluent and convincing, raising the risk that users will rely on these responses as if they were correct. Mit…