🥁🎙️ 🎧New #podcast 'Conversations with Sergei Guriev ' episode with Yamil Ricardo Velez Columbia University

Discover how generative #AI #deeplearning can help combat #misinformation and enhance critical thinking skills.

Listen:
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I had a fantastic time discussing fact-checking, misinformation, and Generative AI with Sergei Guriev!

We find that Claude 3 Opus generates arguments that don't statistically differ in persuasiveness compared to arguments written by humans.

We also find a scaling trend across model generations: newer models tended to be rated as more persuasive than previous ones.

In my latest piece w/ David Leal David L. Leal, El Cuento del Destino, we offer a critical analysis of the 'demographics as destiny' narrative about Latino voters. We argue the narrative's implicit demographic determinism leads both parties astray. academic.oup.com/psq/advance-ar…

This paper is so useful for understanding contemporary electoral coalitions. Here's the key figure, showing which blocs of Latinos increased their support for Trump from 2016 to 2020, and by how much. A few highlights...

Our recent APSR paper summarized:

Most people wish we had free speech online. But we also know that bad actors sometimes cross a line.

Now, where is that line? Would people ever support removing toxic posts?

We experimentally assigned exposure to different posts to find out:

Our paper on Latino voting in 2020 (and beyond) is now forthcoming at the American Political Science Review. Pre-publication draft available here: bit.ly/4a44mgQ

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In the Shadows of Great Men: Retired Leaders and Informal Power Constraints in Autocracies - cup.org/3xh6F21

- Junyan Jiang (Columbia University), Tianyang Xi (@PKU1898) & Haojun Xie (@CUHKofficial)

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Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

As usual, 3Blue1Brown does a fantastic job stepping through the basics of (parts of) the GPT algorithm. One of the best introductions to the idea of embeddings that I’ve seen
youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si…

After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way

paper: osf.io/k6qv5

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New working paper 🧵
When Your Boss is an Algorithm
Yotam Margalit and I explore the effect of algorithmic management on worker performance.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Important study for so many reasons:
1) subtantive findings
2) use of chatGPT to generate exo variation in specific features of real-world discursive experiences
3) innovation in measurement of attitude strength (which is different from preference intensity y'all)
Read it now!

Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics? by John Marshall is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/03/27/can…