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Generative AI systems increasingly mediate access to information. Their behavior depends on tools, instructions, and user memories that are often difficult for researchers to observe or control. Here, I introduce TRACE (Transparent Research on Agent Contexts and Environments), a framework for systematically auditing ho...
This submission indexes contributions to the CSCW 2026 workshop,"Women's Health as Cooperative Work: Participatory AI Across Care, Community, and Policy,"held on October 11, 2026, to support discovery of the corresponding individual arXiv submissions.
Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success across various domains, yet their learned representations and decision-making processes remain largely opaque and hard to interpret. This work introduces HOLE (Homological Observation of Latent Embeddings), a method for analyzing and interpreting discriminative neur...
Contextualization is a form of personalization in which the message is framed in a context meaningful to the recipient, using their interests and background. Personalization is a known persuasive strategy of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in politics and marketing. However, the persuasive effect of contextualizat...
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Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) is the dominant framework for aligning AI systems to human preferences. However, evaluation protocols for such data were designed for text and have not been validated for speech. We present the first intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)-based, controlled cross-modal st...
Consumers, marketers, and new product developers increasingly rely on LLMs for ideation. Yet ideas generated by independent LLM sessions tend to be less diverse than ideas generated by independent samples of humans, raising concerns that widespread reliance on LLMs could homogenize marketplace ideation and decrease con...
An LLM assistant that cannot see official severe-weather alerts may tell users that conditions are calm while a warning is active. We call this false reassurance and measure it by replaying 117 frozen cases built from real U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) alerts (69 alert cases, 32 no-alert controls, 16 non-U.S. loc...
This study evaluates whether large language models (LLMs) can reliably replace or complement human research assistants in linguistically complex annotation. In a controlled annotation task, 73 human annotators (local students and crowdworkers with and without a background in linguistics) and more than 40 LLM configurat...
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled coding agents to autonomously perform complex software development tasks, yet their long-running execution remains difficult for users to inspect, understand, and steer. We present Vibetrace, an interactive trace visualization and intervention system for agen...
In groups, knowledge is distributed among individuals, and how it is brought together depends on social ties. Taking inspiration from how a single mind recalls and reacts to memories and current stimulus, we build a shared memory that does this for a community, prototyped as a social app, SEAM. Members post arbitrary m...
When an AI agent executes an underspecified task, it embeds choices that may contradict unarticulated user context and preferences. However, interrupting the user for clarification on all such decisions is untenable. How might agents communicate impactful, but unexplored, paths to the user after execution? To investiga...
Assistive systems typically tell users everything, often spending time and attention on what a user already knows, leaving less for what happens next. People, on the other hand, leave out what they expect the listener can supply. Can people use their prior knowledge to understand an incomplete message when the speaker...
AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…
Data Mining & Modeling
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
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