Online reviews help people make better decisions. Review platforms usually depend on typed input, where leaving a good review requires significant effort because users must carefully organize and articulate their thoughts. This may discourage users from leaving comprehensive and high-quality reviews, especially when th...
Kavindu Perera, D\'aniel Szab\'o, Niels van Berkel et al.· 0 citations
This article introduces personality engineering--a methodology that precisely parameterizes the personas of AI agents based on established personality frameworks--and proposes how this method can be used to study the traits and behaviors of human negotiators.
Michelle Vaccaro, Jared R. Curhan· Current Opinion in Psycholog...· 0 citations
Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly woven into how blind and low-vision (BLV) people communicate, not only with digital information, but with the physical world and with other people. Tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Be My AI, and Seeing AI translate visual and textual content into accessible form, and ar...
Protik Dey, Mohd Saifuzzaman, Taslima Akter· 0 citations
A structured, seeded review of 24 focal empirical publications, finding no validated individual-level instrument in the focal corpus that tests the full combination of agent scope, permissions, recovery, state isolation, independent review, and evidence-based closure.
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Spook the Machine is presented, a gamified platform where participants generate images to frighten AI agents endowed with personality-driven phobias, and emotional expression shapes how deeply users engage, while reward structure shapes how they explore.
L. Brinkmann, Hiromu Yakura, Sonia Nicoletti et al.· 0 citations
Personal health interfaces present wellbeing data through standardized dashboards that rarely fit how people interpret or act on it. Personalizing them to what people would like to see for themselves often requires design and technical expertise, a barrier that generative AI may potentially lower. Therefore, we ask wha...
Karthik S. Bhat, Vidhi Shah, Vedika Agnihotri et al.· 0 citations
Online mental health communities thrive on peer support, yet those who volunteer to help often lack formal training and may struggle to articulate supportive responses. AI co-writing could lower this barrier; however, peer support derives much of its value from being perceived as personal, raising questions around auth...
Jiwon Kim, Sherry Gong, Maya Ajit et al.· 0 citations
AI companions provide socially engaging interaction through availability, personalization, memory, roleplay, and emotionally responsive language. For teens, these systems may support sensitive self-disclosure, identity exploration, and relationship rehearsal while shaping intimacy expectations, offline relationships, e...
M. Namvarpour, Tyler Chang, Afsaneh Razi· 0 citations
This paper is an encore submission of our 2026 journal article"Expertise and Information Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: New Procedures, New Problematics"with an extended discussion for the CSCW 2026"Broader Impacts of GenAI in Communication"Workshop on October 10, 2026. In the original article, we employ procedur...
When the same question is asked of multiple AI advisers, as in self-consistency and LLM-as-a-judge panels, Condorcet's jury theorem predicts that adding independent, competent advisers makes the majority more reliable. The theorem, however, has a latent dimension when viewed from the user's vantage: adding advisers als...
Generative artificial intelligence raises a central question for scientific training and organization. Is research shifting from deep specialization toward broad individual knowledge? We examine this proposition across papers, cited knowledge, contributor histories, and teams using 47,959 articles from six fields over...
This work document a systematic, multi-method problem analysis that uses nine design principle areas as an analytic artifact to examine why existing recommendations cannot be directly transferred to AI companion contexts.
Soobin Cho, Deveshi Modi, Divya Mavinkurve et al.· International Journal of Hum...· 0 citations
Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduSep 30, 2026
Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.
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