Deployed approaches for AI text detection often rely on training-time access to labeled datasets of both human-written and AI-generated text. This approach is vulnerable to three types of distribution...

A week has passed since Josh and I posted our write-up on the arXiv, and I decided to write a few things. Much was said about our write-up. Some were excited, others enraged. Most everyone was scar...

Vetted coverage of the 2026 midterms, by state.

Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...

Corpus 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.

Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

The $k$-server conjecture states that a deterministic online algorithm can achieve competitive ratio $k$ on every metric space. We prove the conjecture. Specifically, we show that the work function al...

Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brain…

To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.

Many New York City eighth-graders – particularly those from underserved communities – aren’t applying to academically competitive high schools where they could succeed, according to new Cornell resear...

Cities are challenged to allocate educational resources efficiently and equitably. This study of the 2022–2023 New York City High School Match program finds that Black and Hispanic students undermatch...

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

Nihar B. Shah, Associate Professor in MLD and CSD at CMU.

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