iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 28/08/2026

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Value misalignment in X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/V1Mg50ZFWnP For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/XjLl50ZFWnO.

Bar graph of amplification coefficients and a circular radar chart showing individualist and collectivist values across various psychological traits.

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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I want to talk about why AI-based mass surveillance is so dangerous, and why I would oppose it no matter which party or president is in office.

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Theia Henderson @theias.place · 08/03/2026

Boston-area folks: I'm hosting a "build your own social app" hackathon next saturday @ MIT. No coding experience required! Learn about our vision for a "malleable social web" and help shape the new ecosystem :) Register here: social.wiki/Social.Wiki/...

A poster for a hackthon with examples of various social apps. The text says:
"Build Your Own Social App
Hackathon

No Coding Experience Required!
Food and prizes!

Saturday, March 14, 2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (partial attendance OK)
MIT Stata Center, Kiva Room (32-G449)"

There is a QR code that says "Limited capacity please register!!" and a link to https://social.wiki

The apps around include a pink discord-like app called "PinkCord", an app called Pixel Flip for collaborative pixel art, a messaging app where the messages are targets, a game of Othello, a microblog called stanza, an apple notes-like app, a figure drawing app with a poorly drawn bunny, and an instant messenger where all messages are handdrawn.

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Empirical evidence that people can build highly predictive mental models of even complex AIs, if and only if the algorithm fulfills three criteria:

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

📣📣📣📣📣We CAN understand complex algorithms (under certain conditions) 🥳🥳🥳

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Lindsay Popowski @popowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

A search for factors for algorithm understanding results in multiple terms displayed as documents, including available, compact, and aligned. These are shown to be necessary and sufficient. Other, similar terms are shown in the background faded, like intuitive, rule-based, grounded, modular, linear, decomposable, accurate, symbolic, causal, and personalized.

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951

A circular flow diagram that compares current and proposed practices for LLM development using data from adopters and non-adopters. Three gray boxes represent current practices: “R&D,” “Chat Models,” and “Adopters’ Needs and Usage Data,” connected in a clockwise loop with black arrows. A blue box labeled “Non-adopters’ Needs and Usage Data” adds a proposed feedback path, shown with blue arrows, linking non-adopter data back to R&D and adopters’ data.

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Theia Henderson @theias.place · 27/09/2025

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...

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Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’ve been lucky to get the chance to work with some incredibly creative and talented undergrad researchers through this program! Help us spread the word to students who might be interested!

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I know I’m leaving but weird decision to bring it up in Tiziano’s post…

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm so excited to join the CS department at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) as an Assistant Professor! I'm looking for students interested in social computing, HCI, and AI—especially around designing better online systems in the age of LLMs. Come work with me! piccardi.me

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Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#CHI2025 = friends, friends, and friends (many not in the pics) 🥰 Research can be lonely, so moments like these are special! Thank you all for an amazing week of learning and fun. Hope to be back soon!!

Indu and Sunnie in front of the Yokohama city name sculpture

14 Princeton HCI folks in front of the CHI 2025 sign

A group of friends smiling at dinner in a ramen restaurant

Sunnie presenting her paper; the slide shows the paper title, authors, and funding acknowledgements

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Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I am presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) my TOCHI Microsoft work “Generation Probabilities Are Not Enough: Uncertainty Highlighting in AI Code Completions” at ~11:55am in G301 :) should be fun 🥳 work done w/ @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @adamfourney.bsky.social @gaganbansal.bsky.social 🤩

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle! An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...

A screenshot of the CRA website listing Helena's award. Full text in the CRA link.

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