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PhD Candidate @Harvard; Human-AI Interaction, Responsible AI zbucinca.github.io
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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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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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Consider submitting to our upcoming CHI workshop on augmenting human reasoning with AI!

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How can we design AI systems that enhance human critical thinking, reasoning, and agency, rather than diminish them? Happy to announce our workshop on "AI Enhanced Reasoning" at #CHI2025 in Yokohama on April 26, 2025. Please join us! aireasoning.media.mit.edu

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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

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Join us at the #RegulatableML workshop at #NeurIPS2024 to learn about AI regulations and how to operationalize them in practice. Date: Dec 15, 2024 (East Meeting Room 13) Time: 8:15 am - 5:30 pm Details: regulatableml.github.io We have an exciting schedule (a thread): 1/

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Do you feel that your profession or organization urgently needs to adopt #AI? Here's some advice that we often share (as academics working in human-AI interaction and #ML) with professional colleagues who consider the role of modern technology in their professions. (w/ Weiwei Pan and Hongjin Lin)

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I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

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AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch. There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.

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To make a point about overreliance on AI, in my guest lectures, I run a real-time quiz with wrong AI advice. At 4 universities, ~80% of students overrelied. Yesterday at Harvard, only 20% did. During the talk, I had to add a disclaimer: “People, but not Harvard students, tend to overrely on AI”.

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We're hiring a fully-funded Ph.D. student in Use-Inspired AI @ UT Austin starting Fall 2025! Join us to work on impactful AI/ML research addressing real-world challenges. Learn more & apply: t.co/OPrxO3yMhf

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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

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