10 papers
Trade-Offs in Deploying Legal AI: Insights from a Public Opinion Study to Guide AI Risk Management
Kimon Kieslich, Sophie Morosoli, Nicholas Diakopoulos +1
Generative AI tools are increasingly used for legal tasks, including legal research, drafting documents, and even for legal decision-making. As for other purposes, the use of GenAI…
Not Wrong, But Untrue: LLM Overconfidence in Document-Based Queries
Nick Hagar, Wilma Agustianto, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in newsroom workflows, but their tendency to hallucinate poses risks to core journalistic practices of sourcing, attribution, and…
On-Premise AI for the Newsroom: Evaluating Small Language Models for Investigative Document Search
Nick Hagar, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Jeremy Gilbert
Investigative journalists routinely confront large document collections. Large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities promise to accelerate t…
LLM-Assisted News Discovery in High-Volume Information Streams: A Case Study
Nick Hagar, Ethan Silver, Clare Spencer +1
Journalists face mounting challenges in monitoring ever-expanding digital information streams to identify newsworthy content. While traditional automation tools gather information…
Informing AI Risk Assessment with News Media: Analyzing National and Political Variation in the Coverage of AI Risks
Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Risk-based approaches to AI governance often center the technological artifact as the primary focus of risk assessments, overlooking systemic risks that emerge from the complex int…
Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Jasmine Sinchai +1
Scenario building is an established method to anticipate the future of emerging technologies. Its primary goal is to use narratives to map future trajectories of technology develop…