Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This was joint work with the amazing @allisonkoe.bsky.social @eegilbert.org and @informor.bsky.social 010
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 2023, Change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We found that access to the tool changed platform trends in petition text, but that outcomes (signatures and comments) did not improve... Excited that this paper is out, check it out! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comIntroducing AI to an online petition platform changed outputs but not outcomes - Nature Human BehaviourCorpus et al. examine how the introduction of an AI writing tool impacted Change.org petitions, finding that it increased petition homogeneity but did not improve petition outcomes. 22211
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusMeera Desai @madesai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Excited to share our new paper, “What AI Benchmarks Actually Measure: Adapting Convergent and Discriminant Validity to Interrogate Fifty-Six AI Benchmarks,” accepted as an oral at COLM! arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08812 16419
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusKate Donahue @kpaxdonahue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC CS. I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, agentic teams, and benchmark design. Also, check out my grad seminar on these topics! tinyurl.com/cs598aisinth... 1185
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026✨New Work✨ forthcoming at #AIES2026: 1️⃣ "Data Annotation as Measurement" by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social explores how data annotation can go wrong, and how measurement theory can help improve it. 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07297 3266
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpushal @harold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026just now getting around to watching the openai presentation about the HF hack— my lab and I put out a paper about what we call "agent meltdowns" (which I think is a useful conceptual framework) in May will post some thoughts about the hack + our research as I watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy... 131
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at #ic2s2 during the 10:45am Human-AI Interaction session! Have you ever wondered… what happened to petitions when change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool to the platform ?? If so, come find out! pre-print 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949 1171
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It was great to have the chance to share about this work led by @mariannealq.bsky.social on AI overviews in local news environments… keep an eye out for more on this soon! #ic2s2 0141
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusKenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · 06/07/2026🧵Can we reconcile excitement for SAEs with negative results? Our #ICML2026 position paper argues that even if SAEs underperform baselines when acting on knowns (e.g. probing, steering), they're a powerful tool for ~discovering unknowns~ Poster: Tue 2pm, HALL A #1715 2125
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusNikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 03/07/20261/7 Excited to share EconCSLib: a Lean library/workflow. Our vision is to enable researchers who don't know Lean to formalize their Applied Modeling papers. Why? I, and most theorists, are terrified of fatal mistakes in our papers Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.13306 Project: gargnikhil.com/EconCSLib/gargnikhil.comEconCSLibEconCSLib is a Lean 4 library and workflow for formalizing Economics and Computation research papers with language-model assistance. 1283
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusBen Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Super excited to share a new #FAccT2026 paper with Nel Escher and Nikola Banovic! We show that algorithm auditing policies in the US are wildly insufficient, as they don't account for how public sector algorithms actually function in practice. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...dl.acm.orgAlgorithm Auditing Policies Rest on Flawed Assumptions About Public Sector Systems | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyYou will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited. 1204
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusLauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026it's the last day of #FAccT2026 in Montreal (bonjour hiii), and I'm presenting my paper with Diag Davenport on the promise of #PublicInterestTech clinics for training the next gen of critical sociotechnical thinkers. 🏆 plus we got an honorable mention!? come thru @ 10:45! 📄 tiny.cc/pit-clinics-26 1217
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusJennah Gosciak @jennahgosciak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I am excited to be at @facct.bsky.social this year presenting a new 📝 "Scrutinizing Index-Based Risk Assessments: A Case Study in NYC Decision-making for Heat Emergency Management" (work with Luke Boyce, @angelinawang.bsky.social , and @allisonkoe.bsky.social ). 🔗: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (1/10) 1196
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I'll be presenting about this paper tomorrow morning (Thursday) in the Fairness, Data, and Uncertainty session at 10:45am! 020
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Excited to attend FAccT 2026 in Montreal this week! Let me know if you'll be there and want to catch up :) I'll be presenting a paper with @allisonkoe.bsky.social about ad delivery skew in the context of government advertising, come by and check it out! 2257
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I'm so excited to attend #FAccT2026 in 🇨🇦Montreal🇨🇦 to present "Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairness in Property Tax Assessments" by Evelyn Smith, me, Chris Berry, @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social, and Dan Ho!! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.15020 1113
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusSil Hamilton @srhm.ca · 11/06/2026@404media.co wrote about our new preprint on tell-tale signs of AI-generated stories! Cc @dmimno.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492 Article: www.404media.co/elias-thorne...404media.coChatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know WhyLLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo... 11710
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusSophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Introducing skytrails by @kennypeng.bsky.social, a way to browse posts across Bluesky! Follow trails to navigate the space of content/conversations here, and discover new interests beyond your usual feeds 🕸️ I'll talk more about it tomorrow in my talk at #atscience #atmosphereconf! 1239
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusKenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · 17/02/2026New paper! The Linear Representation Hypothesis is a powerful intuition for how language models work, but lacks formalization. We give a mathematical framework in which we can ask and answer a basic question: how many features can be stored under the hypothesis? 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11246 14514
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpustravis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper 🧵 2296
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusSophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253 417150
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpustravis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I spoke with @kattenbarge.bsky.social for this @wired.com piece about my research into reddit moderators' experiences moderating AI-generated content. Moderators are working hard to keep Reddit "one of the most human spaces left on the internet," but it's a trying and often thankless task. 1114
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Has been lots of fun working on this with a great team, thanks to @eegilbert.org, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @informor.bsky.social! 150
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025We speculate that the AI tool improved writer productivity and petition completion rates. However, was this worth the platform-level increase in text homogeneity and decrease in outcomes? The paper adds some reflections and potential explanations arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949. WIP, comments welcome! 8/8arxiv.orgIntroducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not OutcomesThe rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org... 171
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Again, petitions written with AI access were stylistically different (e.g. longer), but did not seem to have higher chances of positive outcomes (e.g. signatures). 7/ 141
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025We confirmed these trends by comparing repeat-petition writers who wrote 1 petition pre and 1 post in-platform AI access against a baseline of writers w/ 2 petitions pre- or post-AI. If AI is helpful, we’d see a higher rate of success than expected for the split writers' second petition. 6/ 160
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025However, petition outcomes did not improve, and by some measures worsened: the share of petitions that reach minimum thresholds of comments and signatures decreased modestly when writers had access to the AI tool. 5/ 160
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Petition text also became more homogenous: the average pairwise similarity of petition text increased. 4/ 170
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Lexical features changed: petitions written with access to AI were longer, with more complex and varied vocabularies. Petition language shifted: in the pre-AI period petition titles tended to use short verbs like “let” and “stop”; after AI introduction we saw the rise of “implement” and “urge”. 3/ 140
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025To do this, we scraped 1.5 million petitions and leveraged the delayed release of the AI tool in Australia to estimate the causal impact of access to in-platform AI on petition text and outcomes (as measured through signatures and comments). 2/ 150
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Excited to share a new working paper! What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949arxiv.orgIntroducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not OutcomesThe rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org... 45518
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpushal @harold.bsky.social · 20/11/2025@davidingram.bsky.social covered @mantzarlis.com and my work on Grokipedia citations for NBC! much more to analyze here www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...nbcnews.comElon Musk’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website 42 times: studyAn analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month. 185
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@ziv-e.bsky.social's talk showed the gaps in which users are recommended content that is aligned with their values. This work definitely points to the importance of user agency in feeds! I couldn’t find the link to this paper, but some related work from Ziv here: 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434arxiv.org 060
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025They found that while increasingly accurate LLM’s map to increasingly accurate responses, the effects plateau around 80%. Great insight into how decision supports require active design to best support people and their goals. Looking forward to reading this paper when it’s out!! 140
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@jennahgosciak.bsky.social showed how LLM assistance can improve government caseworker accuracy in the context of SNAP eligibility questions. It was really cool to see Jennah + team get ahead of the ever-shifting technical capacity of LLMs by varying chatbot accuracy. 171
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Sherry Jueyu Wu showed that when people participate in collective decision-making, they are more willing to express that the gov needs improvement. Interesting to think about in the context of participation and accountability on online platforms... 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China - Nature Human BehaviourWu et al. show that involving citizens in local decision-making (participatory budgeting) improves civic engagement in a Chinese context. 160
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025This is a really cool work demonstrating the value of human expertise in sociotechnical decision-making processes! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13325arxiv.org 140
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@utopianturtle.top presented a causal framework for modeling algorithmically assisted decision-making, which the authors use to identify the ways academic advisors leverage non-algorithmic knowledge, and where advisors’ holistic approaches contribute to improved student outcomes.arxiv.org 150
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Had a great time at CODE@MIT this weekend, and wanted to highlight a few (of the many) cool talks! 1175
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this. Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute. But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others? This paper has got you covered! 45011
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I am so excited to be in 🇬🇷Athens🇬🇷 to present "A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms" by me, @kizilcec.bsky.social, and @allisonkoe.bsky.social, at #FAccT2025!! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04419 13110
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusJennah Gosciak @jennahgosciak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I am presenting a new 📝 “Bias Delayed is Bias Denied? Assessing the Effect of Reporting Delays on Disparity Assessments” at @facct.bsky.social on Thursday, with @aparnabee.bsky.social, Derek Ouyang, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, and Dan Ho. 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13735 (1/n) 1134
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 09/06/2025📣 "Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems" is forthcoming at #ACL2025NLP - and you can read it now on arXiv! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04482 🧵: ⬇️ 1174
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🎉 So excited to share that "Don't Forget the Teachers" has received a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025!! @allisonkoe.bsky.social @kizilcec.bsky.social 7353
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpustravis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025*NEW DATASET AND PAPER* (CHI2025): How are online communities responding to AI-generated content (AIGC)? We study this by collecting and analyzing the public rules of 300,000+ subreddits in 2023 and 2024. 1/ 1165
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusSophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape... 8171118
Reposted by Isabel Silva CorpusEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025✨New Work✨ by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social forthcoming at #CHI2025: "Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14592 1548