10 papers
High-Stakes Decisions with Language Models: Insights from Emergency Triage
Khurram Yamin, Christopher Kelly, Bryan Wilder +1
High-stakes decisions under uncertainty, such as medical emergency triage, require more than accurate predictions. They depend on estimating the likelihood of alternative outcomes…
Psychological Influences of Conversational AI: Research and Design Directions for Reducing Harm and Promoting Well-Being
Jina Suh, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh +5
As conversational AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their potential effects on user well-being require ongoing attention. While consumer-facing generalist…
When Agents Say One Thing and Do Another: Validating Elicited Beliefs from LLMs
Khurram Yamin, Jingjing Tang, Santiago Cortes-Gomez +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings where good decisions require forming beliefs over the probability of unknown outcomes. However, it is…
Magentic Marketplace: An Open-Source Environment for Studying Agentic Markets
Gagan Bansal, Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang +21
As LLM agents advance, they are increasingly mediating economic decisions, ranging from product discovery to transactions, on behalf of users. Such applications promise benefits bu…
Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi +2
Reasoning models improve their problem-solving ability through inference-time scaling, allocating more compute via longer token budgets. Identifying which reasoning traces are like…
Creating General User Models from Computer Use
Omar Shaikh, Shardul Sapkota, Shan Rizvi +4
Human-computer interaction has long imagined technology that understands us-from our preferences and habits, to the timing and purpose of our everyday actions. Yet current user mod…