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Ashton Anderson

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Social Priors: Descriptions of AI Users Shape How Language Models Trust and Cooperate

Descriptions of how people use AI are becoming training data for the next generation of models. We ask whether what a model reads about its users changes how it treats people. Using contrastive synthetic-document finetuning, we train Qwen3-32B on four matched corpora built from the same 1,625 real-world usage scenarios...

H. Kumar, George Eilender, Ashton Anderson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Aug 2026

Emulate or Estimate? The Divergent Strengths of Base and Post-Trained Language Models for Opinion Simulation

Evaluating six matched base and post-trained models on the Pew American Trends Panel, it is found that base models are the stronger emulators: they produce response distributions closer to human ground truth and better preserve demographic structure.

Seth Grief-Albert, Jessica Y. Bo, Di-Fan Jiao et al. · 0 citations

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