3 papers
cs.CY2026
Human attribution of empathic behaviour to AI systems
Jonas Festor, Ivo Snels, Bennett Kleinberg
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly generate text intended to provide social and emotional support. Understanding how users perceive empathic qualities in such content is…
cs.CL2026
Linguistic traces of stochastic empathy in language models
Bennett Kleinberg, Jari Zegers, Jonas Festor +4
Differentiating generated and human-written content is increasingly difficult. We examine how an incentive to convey humanness and task characteristics shape this human vs AI race…
cs.CL2025
Translating the Grievance Dictionary: a psychometric evaluation of Dutch, German, and Italian versions
Isabelle van der Vegt, Bennett Kleinberg, Marilu Miotto +1
This paper introduces and evaluates three translations of the Grievance Dictionary, a psycholinguistic dictionary for the analysis of violent, threatening or grievance-fuelled text…