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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve been asking a version of this question to participants in a current study and the answer has predominantly been: whatever interface I need I tell the agent to build it.

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

GDP per capita is super strongly correlated with life satisfaction across countries - but *negatively* correlated with meaning/purpose The AI-makes-us-all-rich future: lots of hedonic satisfaction, little eudaimonia? from @betseystevenson.bsky.social

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

As a thank-you for your time, you’ll receive a $50 gift card. How to sign up: If you're interested, please express your interest by filling out this form: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/MejhPFzi3m. We'll follow up to schedule a session once we determine eligibility.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Participating in this study involves a interview (45-60 min) over Microsoft Teams. We’ll ask you to reflect on how your work has changed as AI capabilities have expanded. No preparation required and there are no right or wrong answers; we’re interested in your lived experience.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We’re especially interested in hearing from people who build and use frontier AI systems as a core part of their work. Your experiences will help us understand what new work is emerging at the frontier of AI development and inform the design of tools and systems that support it.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We’re interested in understanding what new tasks are emerging, what existing tasks are disappearing, and how professionals who are at the forefront of AI development are making sense of these shifts.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Are you an AI professional? Is AI changing what your work looks like day to day? We’d love to hear about it. We’re a group of researchers from MIT and Microsoft studying how the work of AI professionals is evolving as AI systems become increasingly capable.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here's a commencement speech that didn't get booed at when AI was mentioned. begus.substack.com/p/no-paths-j...

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No paths, just endless ocean

Commencement Address to the Bowles Hall Class of 2026

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Reading papers published pre-2022 has become a breath of fresh air.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Submit your work on causality and networks today!

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 26/10/2025

Aaaaarrrggh

Reuters headline reads,
“Two federal judges say use of Al led to errors in US court rulings
By Sara Merken
October 23, 2025 1:29 PM PDT • Updated October 23, 2025.”

A pop-up reads: “Get the key points from this story with Reuters Al”

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MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

What is "pro-worker AI," and how can we actually achieve it? A panel discussion at the upcoming launch of the Stone Center will feature insights from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social & @zbucinca.bsky.social. Register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

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Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!

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Machine Learning / AI Internships - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Machine Learning / AI Internships job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Honored to be part of the panel on Pro-Worker AI at the launch event of MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. Looking forward to it!

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MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The half-day event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We're recruiting a new tenure-track faculty member to MIT Sloan! apply.interfolio.com/170116 We're looking for someone doing research in quantitative marketing, broadly considered. Faculty in our group work on economics of privacy, mathematical psych, networks, and applications of ML & AI.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I second this. Many people from my generation in Kosovo can understand/speak Spanish because we grew up with subtitled Latin American telenovelas. (That was the only type of TV that Kosovo could afford right after the war.)

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments. "You're exactly right, that's a great point!" "Thank you so much for this insight!" Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

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MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) @mitiwer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

You might not think that forming a committee where frontline workers can share work-related health & well-being concerns would have all that much effect on a workplace. But it can. That’s what @elkelly.bsky.social @mitiwer.bsky.social & colleagues found in a recent study: tinyurl.com/y4pej88v

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The Surprising Potential of Health and Well-Being Committees | MIT Sloan

MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health ...

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Wohoo! Congratulations to you as well, Prof. Das Swain! Thanks for co-riding the emotional roller coaster of the job market.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments. Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Thank you so much, Michael!!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Thank you, Serena!! Can’t wait for all the events and collaborations we will cook together!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Yayyy!!!! Thank you, Arvind!! Over the moon to be joining this incredible community!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The academic job market has many ups and downs. I am grateful to my friends and the community who spared their time to share feedback on my statements. Special thanks to: @reniebird.bsky.social, @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social, and Liz Bondi-Kelly.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

For every achievement, I am forever indebted to my advisor ‪@kgajos.bsky.social for his brilliance, kindness, patience and the profound impact he’s had on me as a researcher and as a human being. I also thank Finale, Elena, Jenn, Saleema and too many mentors to list here for shaping me as a scholar

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Krzysztof Gajos @kgajos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

@zbucinca.bsky.social's new paper shows that people who receive AI decision recommendations with contrastive explanations (pick A instead of B because...) grow their skills. This important because people do not learn when AI provides conventional explanations. iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucin...

Drawing of a person looking at a screen, which contains an example of an AI generated decision recommendation and a contrastive explanation: "The AI suggests Antibiotic A instead of Antibiotic B because: Although both antibiotics can treat bacterial infections, recent lab tests showed that the bacteria found in this patient are resistant to Antibiotic B."

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I will be presenting this work today at 2:34 JST, room 402 #CHI2025.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

As concerns about deskilling in AI-supported tasks grow, our research demonstrates that integrating human reasoning into AI design can promote human skill development.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We introduce human-centered contrastive explanations which explain the difference between AI’s choice and a predicted, likely human choice about the same task and demonstrate that such explanations significantly enhance users’ learning compared to unilateral explanations without sacrificing accuracy

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We argue this is partly because people intuitively seek contrastive explanations, which clarify the difference between the AI’s decision and their own reasoning, while most AI systems offer “unilateral” explanations that justify the AI’s decision but do not account for users’ knowledge gaps.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#CHI2025 As we rely on AI for decision-making support, how will our independent decision-making skills be affected? Prior work shows people’s decision-making skills often fail to improve or may even erode when they rely on AI for decision-support, even when the AI provides informative explanations.

Screenshot of a paper on Contrasive Explanations That Anticipate Human Misconceptions Can Improve Human Decision-Making skills.

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

First day at #CHI2025. Live from our workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Excited to present my work at Max Planck soon!

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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 21/04/2025

The First Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI 2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! We’re super excited to hold a panel with some amazing speakers to discuss why a sociotechnical approach to AI governance is so important. Learn more + see our full schedule: chi-staig.github.io

poster advertising 5 panelists from a diverse set of institutions the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance at CHI 2025

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I mostly remember papers by author(s) and year of publication.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So disappointing that Harvard is terminating ongoing faculty searches. You'd think that with their resources they could complete these searches and then pause future searches. Apart from the huge waste of everyone's time, it's devastating for the candidates. My heart goes out to them.

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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Unfortunately, since there are people crying wolf about all kinds of things, as brilliantly documented by the Pessimists Archive project (@pessimistsarc.bsky.social), the enterprise of alarm-raising defeats its own aims, because it ends up desensitizing people to predictions about risks and harms.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Interested in human-AI interaction? Consider submitting your work to our #CHI2025 workshop on augmenting human agency & reasoning with AI. Join us in Yokohama, Japan! Submission deadline: March 2 www.media.mit.edu/events/CHI-2...

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CHI 2025: Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning – MIT Media Lab

Human-AI Interaction for Augmented ReasoningImproving Human Reflective and Critical Thinking with Artificial IntelligenceApril 26, 2025 | 9:00-17:00 JST | CHI …

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The worst part about submitting papers to FAccT: the strict 14 page-limit. The best part about reviewing papers for FAccT: the strict 14 page-limit.

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