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Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 23/09/2026

Proud that our Workers' Algorithm Observatory is partnering with NYC's Dept. of Consumer & Worker Protection and the Workers Justice Project to build tech infrastructure for compliance monitoring of DoorDash, as part of a record $131.5M settlement✊🏽 Press release: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New preprint! We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews. We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well. A thread 🧵 w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Joint work with the amazing Victoria Dean, Ruth Fong, Lydia Liu, and Manoel Horta Ribeiro! cc: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social, @vdean.bsky.social 8/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🧠 In many domains, the challenge is not only how well work is done, but whether it gets done at all. Our findings suggest AI can help people initiate discretionary but socially beneficial work that might otherwise go undone. 7/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🔎 Interestingly, AI did not significantly reduce the time spent per unit of feedback. Interviews revealed why: TAs rarely treated drafts as final outputs. They used them as editable scaffolds that helped them articulate feedback and get started on feedback they might otherwise not have written. 6/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📈 AI assistance increased feedback provision by 10.8 percentage points and increased feedback length by 39.8 characters. Students received substantially more personalized feedback, without lower ratings of usefulness. 5/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🤝 We built an AI-assisted feedback system that generated personalized feedback drafts for TAs after grading. TAs remained fully in control and could use, edit, or ignore the drafts. We evaluated the system across 2,828 graded question submissions. 4/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎓 We studied this question in a semester-long randomized field experiment on personalized feedback provision in an undergraduate machine learning course, a pedagogically valuable but often optional task. 3/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🤖 AI systems increasingly generate drafts, suggestions, and templates that people can adopt, revise, or ignore. Prior work shows AI can improve required tasks, but can it help people do beneficial work they often intend to do but frequently skip? 2/8

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📝Excited to share our new preprint, “AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education”: arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 A thread 🧵 1/8

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🚨New preprint!🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions. Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional? A thread 🧵

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Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 14/04/2026

Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.social

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Bonsai

Bonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

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Francesco Salvi @frasalvi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🛍️Major AI companies are increasingly embedding sponsored content into chatbot conversations. Across two preregistered experiments (N=2,012), we test how effectively AI can steer consumers toward sponsored products in a realistic shopping scenario. 📝https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263

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