most citedDigital Twins as Funhouse Mirrors: Five Key Distortions

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cs.CY2026

ExploraTwin, a Non-Profit Research Platform for Digital Twin Simulations

Naveen Venkat, Naveen Venkatanarayanan, Yuchen Qiu +3

Digital twin simulations show promise, but current empirical evidence suggests that the approach should be tested before being deployed in any particular context. To lower the fric…

cs.HC2026

Innovating with Generative AI: A Human Bottleneck Framework

Julian De Freitas, Ayelet Israeli, Gideon Nave +2

We propose a human bottleneck perspective for understanding how generative AI transforms the innovation process. The central premise is that many constraints traditionally plaguing…

cs.HC2026

Synthetic Contact with AI Reduces Cross-Partisan Animosity

Benjamin Lira, Noah Castelo, Stefano Puntoni +1

Americans' warmth toward members of the opposing political party has fallen sharply over the past three decades -- yet meaningful cross-partisan contact remains scarce, in part bec…

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Digital Twins as Funhouse Mirrors: Five Key Distortions

Tianyi Peng, George Gui, Melanie Brucks +20

Scientists and practitioners are increasingly moving to deploy digital twins--LLM-based models of real individuals--across social science and policy research. We conduct 19 pre-reg…

cs.CY2026

Examining and Addressing Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Generated Ideas

Yuting Deng, Melanie Brucks, Olivier Toubia

Ideas generated by independent samples of humans tend to be more diverse than ideas generated from independent LLM samples, raising concerns that widespread reliance on LLMs could…

cs.AI2025

The Challenge of Using LLMs to Simulate Human Behavior: A Causal Inference Perspective

George Gui, Olivier Toubia

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive potential to simulate human behavior. We identify a fundamental challenge in using them to simulate experiments: when LLM-simulat…