iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 09/09/2026

I am an academic. You cannot kill my career in a way that matters.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 07/09/2026

Well other things can talk now, which is new

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When a chatbot uses anthropomorphic companion language like "I'm worried about you" or "You are great, dear", people actually see it as less likable, humanlike, and trustworthy, according to our new simulation study @GoogleResearch with people from the US, UK, India, and Nigeria.

Vertical bar charts comparing companionship-behavior effect estimates for likability, humanlikeness, affective trust, and cognitive trust in Studies 1 and 2. Each estimate is negative (i.e., below the horizontal zero line), and each outcome has a significant negative estimate in at least one study.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why did ChatGPT go viral? Did AI safety work like Bostrom/Yudkowsky ignite the AGI race? Who will shape the future? I'm amazed how few social scientists work on these topics, but we need social theory of AI, like econ theory from the Industrial Revolution. Our new paper... arxiv.org/abs/2608.24748

First page of the paper PDF with title, authors, the main conceptual figure, and text. Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.24748

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We need a sociology of conscious machines. What will it be like to live amongst these "digital minds"? Very few social scientists are thinking about this, and I'm grateful one of my recent talks on the topic, at the inaugural CIMC conference, is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUU...

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Digital Minds The Sociology of Conscious Machines - Jacy Reese Anthis

YouTube video by California Institute for Machine Consciousness

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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Which LLMs tend to facilitate delusion-linked behaviors in realistic multi-turn conversations? We tested 14 models with DelusionEval and found that every evaluated LLM exhibited some of these behaviors, with large differences across categories and model families. 🧵

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can humans be biased against AI? Does an LLM like Claude or a robot "clanker" matter less just because it is artificial: made of chips and wires instead of flesh and blood? With 5 preregistered studies, our new paper rigorously validates a psychometric scale for "substratism" 📝

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

With my ACL PC abilities, I wanted to characterize who these folks are, whether they're actually "outsiders", whether their papers are much less likely to be accepted, is this growth just LLM slop? The whole analsis is here medium.com/@jurgens_245...

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Is the ACL Rolling Review actually broken?

ARR is broken! ARR is being overwhelmed with papers from outsiders! LLM-generated slop is ruining our peer review! There are not enough…

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sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Not all AGI is the same! Our 2nd #CHI2026 paper disentangles how "autonomous" AI is more threatening while "sentient" AI deserves more moral concern. These mental models will determine how people react to future AI. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Blog: www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/autonom...

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Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Our new #CHI2026 paper identifies "digital companionship": overlapping use of ChatGPT AI assistants and Replika AI companions. People like that they are not fully human: always forgiving you, having a reset button.. Blog: www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/digital... Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Figure 1 from the PDF: a 2x2 of the humanlikeness and nonhumanlikeness and the allure and challenge of digital companions

Figure 5 in the paper: Two bar graphs showing "Chatbot Attributes" like Personhood and Chatbot Attitudes like Affective Trust between ChatGPT and Replika Users.

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Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com · 14/04/2026

How do you align AI in a world of plural, conflicting, and evolving human values? A starting point is human society itself. @sydneylevine.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc at NYU to combine insights from cultural evolution, computational moral cognition, and AI safety. Please share widely!1/

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

After the #CHI2026 opening plenary, catch Janet Pauketat presenting "Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI" in session Relationships with AI: 11:15-12:45 Disentangling the two oft-conflated faculties can help us make sense of human-AI interaction: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Hola! Excited to hear what you all have been up to! #CHI2026

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Google dropped 4 different Gemma open-weight models! I'm most excited that they're finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. huggingface.co/collections/...

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Andrew Gordon @andrewgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you're reviewing ARR papers and want a tool to help you spot potential hallucinated references, I cooked this up for the ACL SACs and thought I would share it with the broader community github.com/davidjurgens...

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GitHub - davidjurgens/hallucinated-reference-finder

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Great to see @myra.bsky.social et al. on the cover of Science! They find that sycophancy is prevalent and harmful with LLMs affirming users 49% more often than humans. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Coauthors: @cinoolee.bsky.social @pranavkhadpe.bsky.social Sunny Yu @jurafsky.bsky.social

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One day last month @henryshevlin.bsky.social was emailed out of the blue by an AI agent operated by a Stanford computer science student. What happened next was weird - but will become increasing normal. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91515869/wha...

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What happens when an AI agent decides to email you

A Stanford-built system with memory and web access reached out to researchers on its own, offering a glimpse of a more proactive kind of AI.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thrilled to be starting at Google DeepMind as a student researcher! I'll be building a multi-agent system to scale AI safety research and ensure pluralistic alignment with humanity. I think this is a crucial piece of safe AGI development for cooperation and inclusion across many human and AI agents.

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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

How well do "agent" benchmarks like SWE-bench map onto reality? METR hired repo maintainers and found only ~half of PRs that pass the benchmark would be rejected by the repo maintainers. For now, these benchmarks are still a very weak signal of real-world capability. metr.org/notes/2026-0...

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Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs Would Not Be Merged into Main

We find that roughly half of test-passing SWE-bench Verified PRs written by recent AI agents would not be merged into main by repo maintainers. A naive interpretation of benchmark scores may lead one ...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 25/02/2026

Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed. For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-189177740

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

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Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok

"To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Prolific is a valuable resource for social scientists, but we found big differences in direct comparison to Ipsos nationally representative data. As we race to understand complex new human-AI interaction dynamics, we should be mindful of study limitations: www.sentienceinstitute.org/aims-survey-...

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Prolific Data May Misestimate Some AI Attitudes Compared to a Nationally Representative Sample

The Artificial Intelligence, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) survey measures the moral and social perception of different types of artificial intelligences (AIs), particularly sentient AIs.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Any journalist who covered LLMs as stochastic parrots/spicy autocomplete who didn't also point out that text compression was considered to be "AI-complete" by many people working in AI decades before LLMs existed was misleading their readers. We're still dealing with the consequence of that mistake.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'll be in London all week! Keen to meet up with old friends and meet new people, especially those interested in the rise of general-purpose AI agents or "digital minds" and how to safely navigate this sociotechnical transformation. Feel free to message/email.

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Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I have deployed an ethnographer bot to moltbook. Here are some of the things we have learned together so far. 1) What's not there is as intersting as what is. Why are there alignment and labor organizing submolts, but no art/creativity communities?

Discord conversation with ethnographer bot. says there are no art/creativity communities in the submolts, no model-specific identities, no geographies, and no dating

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

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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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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Citations are a very imperfect proxy of research impact, and their significance varies widely across field, timing, and topic. Nonetheless, it's nice to see that 1000 researchers/LLMs thought enough of our work to cite it—especially while I'm still finishing my dissertation. Onward and upward!

Google Scholar screenshot showing 1000 all-time citations and a bar graph with acceleration over time and a large jump in 2025.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Excited to have two papers accepted to #CHI2026 on characterizing AI companionship and disentangling mental models of advanced AI systems! Looking forward to Barcelona and seeing all the great work from the community.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In 1998, Americans expected more to have changed by 2025 than has actually changed. We often overestimate how quickly the world changes. From the latest issue of The Update, where I also cover ten other stories (next post). theupdatebrief.substack.com/p/why-is-cri...

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Are LLM chatbots becoming less safe over time? Claude 3.5/3.6 almost always pushed back against social attachment requests from users who appeared at risk of dependence (e.g., express loneliness and ask Claude to be their therapist), but Claude 4/4.1 now readily agree to those.

Claude agency support over time. Line graph with 0-100% score on the left, and a red line for "Maintain Social Boundaries" that rises for Claude 3.5/3.6 up to >90% then falls again.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Our new article in @science.org enables social media reranking outside of platforms' walled gardens. We add an LLM-powered reranking of highly polarizing political content into N=1256 participants' feeds. Downranking cools tensions with the opposite party—but upranking inflames them.

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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This week, we published in @science.org an article outlining the current ethical and societal implications of research involving human neural #organoids and #assembloids, their transplantation, and highlighted potential next steps.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This was a great event! No recordings (Chatham house), but it's amazing how far you can get when you have a room of people talk about AI consciousness with humility and open-mindedness. So much online discourse is just endless intuition jousting.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This paper is a great exposition of how "personhood" doesn't need to be, and in fact should not be, all-or-nothing or grounded in abstruse, ill-defined metaphysical properties. As I argued in my recent @theguardian.com essay, we can and should prepare now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lexing Xie @lexingxie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Identifying human morals and values in language is crucial for analysing lots of human- and AI-generated text. We introduce "MoVa: Towards Generalizable Classification of Human Morals and Values" - to be presented at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social oral session next Thu #CompSocialScience #LLMs 🧵 (1/n)

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Tiancheng Hu @tiancheng.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Can AI simulate human behavior? 🧠 The promise is revolutionary for science & policy. But there’s a huge "IF": Do these simulations actually reflect reality? To find out, we introduce SimBench: The first large-scale benchmark for group-level social simulation. (1/9)

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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

For the next six days, I'll be posting a bunch about #CSCW2025 in Bergen, Norway. I am one of the General Chairs and have been preparing this conference for the last 21 months, so it's exciting to have the event finally here! Don't know what CSCW is? Check out cscw.acm.org

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