Sacha Altay

@Sacha_Altay
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Postdoc at the University of Zurich in the Digital Democracy Lab

🔎 Misinformation, misperceptions, social media & (dis)trust

Researchhttps://sites.google.com/view/sacha-altay/research?authuser=0
Science popularizationhttps://sites.google.com/view/sacha-altay/science-popularization?authuser=0
Interesting argument: don't underhype *or* overhype the Russian disinformation effort: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/dont-hype-disinformation-threat
Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat

Underplaying the risk helps foreign propagandists—but so does exaggerating it.

Foreign Affairs

EVENT! 17 June, online and in person @ University of Sheffield: The AI Replication Game : work in teams to reproduce analysis from high-profile social science results

Sign up here https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Sheffield_AI_Games_2024

participants get coauthorship on a metaresearch paper, open to all researchers from graduate students onwards, knowledge of Python, R or Stata essential

More info: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/orwg/research-practice

#metaresearch #replication #reproducibility #metascience

AI Replication Games - University of Sheffield Survey

Please take the survey titled "AI Replication Games - University of Sheffield". Your feedback is important!

Science education is so vital. Check out the amazing work of "Science Journal for Kids" which recently covered our research on using AI chatbots to moderate conflict in sensitive political discussions: https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-can-ai-make-online-chats-kinder/ Lots of other amazing content created by a small but mighty team. Please share or support them!
How can AI make online chats kinder? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens

Researchers wanted to see if AI assistants can improve online political discussions. Scientific article for students.

Science Journal for Kids and Teens

🚨New PNASNexus🚨
Reserach on misinformation & harmful language as often studied separately. Here we look at how they relate to each other, and find:
-More harmful language in tweets w low-quality news links β=0.1 & in false headlines β=0.19
-Users who share more misinformation use more harmful language in non-news tweets β=0.13

PDF: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/3/pgae111/7626151

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New newsletter!

"AI-juiced political microtargeting"
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-juiced-political-microtargeting

i take a deep dive into a recent paper that claims to show personality matched adverts are more persuasive

AI-juiced political microtargeting

Reasonable People #53 looking carefully at the claims in one study which uses generative AI to customise ads to personality type

Reasonable People

New newsletter!

Propaganda is dangerous, but not because it is persuasive

I pick at the claim that propaganda "doesn't work".

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/propaganda-is-dangerous-but-not-because

Propaganda is dangerous, but not because it is persuasive

Reasonable People #52: I pick at the claim that propaganda "doesn't work".

Reasonable People

NEW NEWSLETTER

How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda? https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/how-persuasive-is-ai-generated-propaganda

Reasonable People #51: Bullet review of a new paper suggesting LLMs can create highly persuasive text and will supercharge covert propaganda campaigns.

I'm not persuaded

#persuasion #disinformation #psychology #psyops #propaganda #ai

How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda?

Reasonable People #51: Bullet review of a new paper suggesting LLMs can create highly persuasive text and will supercharge covert propaganda campaigns.

Reasonable People

PAPER: Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/357fh

Paper doesn’t mention the "third person effect”, but the results directly align (+ with my newsletter theme of people being more reasonable than imagined): party affiliation produced a minimal bias on whether people judged statements as lies, but there was a large effect of how much they thought *other* people would be biased by party affiliation

#bias #politics #cogsci

OSF

Does social media negatively impact the health of U.S. teenagers? The National Academy of Sciences, among the most authoritative organizations in the country, just released a major report, co-authored by a dozen leading experts in the field. Here's a summary of their conclusions:

As a professor at CAIS and the University of Wuppertal, I’m hiring 3 #phdjobs and 1 #postdoc in #HCI #XAI #CSCW

Join me in Bochum 🇩🇪🇪🇺 to increase #Trust in #AI Through #CoCreation, #AlgorithmicAudits, & #FolkTheory

https://stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=374be6

You will find more detail about the positions and related work in this blog post:

https://www.cais-research.de/en/news/doctoral-and-postdoctoral-researcher-design-of-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

#phdchat #CHI24 #chi2024

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) - Job Bochum - Stellenangebote CAIS

The Professorship for the Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH in Bochum, Germany, invites applications for the following academic...