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Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · Dec 1
Excited to share a new working paper!

What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/

arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949
Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes
The rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...
arxiv.org
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sjgreenwood.bsky.social
Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜

arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253
Title + abstract of the preprint
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
travislloydphd.bsky.social
I spoke with @kattenbarge.bsky.social for this @wired.com piece about my research into reddit moderators' experiences moderating AI-generated content. Moderators are working hard to keep Reddit "one of the most human spaces left on the internet," but it's a trying and often thankless task.
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
isabelcorpus.bsky.social
Excited to share a new working paper!

What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/

arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949
Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes
The rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...
arxiv.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
harold.bsky.social
@davidingram.bsky.social covered @mantzarlis.com and my work on Grokipedia citations for NBC! much more to analyze here

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website 42 times: study
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
isabelcorpus.bsky.social
Had a great time at CODE@MIT this weekend, and wanted to highlight a few (of the many) cool talks!
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
johnholbein1.bsky.social
If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this.

Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute.

But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others?

This paper has got you covered!
May 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
emmharv.bsky.social
I am so excited to be in 🇬🇷Athens🇬🇷 to present "A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms" by me, @kizilcec.bsky.social, and @allisonkoe.bsky.social, at #FAccT2025!!

🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04419
A screenshot of our paper's: Title: A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms Authors: Emma Harvey, Rene Kizilcec, Allison Koenecke Abstract: Increasingly, individuals who engage in online activities are expected to interact with large language model (LLM)-based chatbots. Prior work has shown that LLMs can display dialect bias, which occurs when they produce harmful responses when prompted with text written in minoritized dialects. However, whether and how this bias propagates to systems built on top of LLMs, such as chatbots, is still unclear. We conduct a review of existing approaches for auditing LLMs for dialect bias and show that they cannot be straightforwardly adapted to audit LLM-based chatbots due to issues of substantive and ecological validity. To address this, we present a framework for auditing LLM-based chatbots for dialect bias by measuring the extent to which they produce quality-of-service harms, which occur when systems do not work equally well for different people. Our framework has three key characteristics that make it useful in practice. First, by leveraging dynamically generated instead of pre-existing text, our framework enables testing over any dialect, facilitates multi-turn conversations, and represents how users are likely to interact with chatbots in the real world. Second, by measuring quality-of-service harms, our framework aligns audit results with the real-world outcomes of chatbot use. Third, our framework requires only query access to an LLM-based chatbot, meaning that it can be leveraged equally effectively by internal auditors, external auditors, and even individual users in order to promote accountability. To demonstrate the efficacy of our framework, we conduct a case study audit of Amazon Rufus, a widely-used LLM-based chatbot in the customer service domain. Our results reveal that Rufus produces lower-quality responses to prompts written in minoritized English dialects.
June 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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jennahgosciak.bsky.social
I am presenting a new 📝 “Bias Delayed is Bias Denied? Assessing the Effect of Reporting Delays on Disparity Assessments” at @facct.bsky.social on Thursday, with @aparnabee.bsky.social, Derek Ouyang, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, and Dan Ho. 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13735
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"Bias Delayed is Bias Denied? Assessing the Effect of Reporting Delays on Disparity Assessments" Conducting disparity assessments at regular time intervals is critical for surfacing potential biases in decision-making and improving outcomes across demographic groups. Because disparity assessments fundamentally depend on the availability of demographic information, their efficacy is limited by the availability and consistency of available demographic identifiers. While prior work has considered the impact of missing data on fairness, little attention has been paid to the role of delayed demographic data. Delayed data, while eventually observed, might be missing at the critical point of monitoring and action -- and delays may be unequally distributed across groups in ways that distort disparity assessments. We characterize such impacts in healthcare, using electronic health records of over 5M patients across primary care practices in all 50 states. Our contributions are threefold. First, we document the high rate of race and ethnicity reporting delays in a healthcare setting and demonstrate widespread variation in rates at which demographics are reported across different groups. Second, through a set of retrospective analyses using real data, we find that such delays impact disparity assessments and hence conclusions made across a range of consequential healthcare outcomes, particularly at more granular levels of state-level and practice-level assessments. Third, we find limited ability of conventional methods that impute missing race in mitigating the effects of reporting delays on the accuracy of timely disparity assessments. Our insights and methods generalize to many domains of algorithmic fairness where delays in the availability of sensitive information may confound audits, thus deserving closer attention within a pipeline-aware machine learning framework. Figure contrasting a conventional approach to conducting disparity assessments, which is static, to the analysis we conduct in this paper. Our analysis (1) uses comprehensive health data from over 1,000 primary care practices and 5 million patients across the U.S., (2) timestamped information on the reporting of race to measure delay, and (3) retrospective analyses of disparity assessments under varying levels of delay.
June 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
emmharv.bsky.social
📣 "Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems" is forthcoming at #ACL2025NLP - and you can read it now on arXiv!

🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04482
🧵: ⬇️
A screenshot of our paper: Title: Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems Authors: Emma Harvey, Emily Sheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Chouldechova, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Alexandra Olteanu, Hanna Wallach Abstract: The NLP research community has made publicly available numerous instruments for measuring representational harms caused by large language model (LLM)-based systems. These instruments have taken the form of datasets, metrics, tools, and more. In this paper, we examine the extent to which such instruments meet the needs of practitioners tasked with evaluating LLM-based systems. Via semi-structured interviews with 12 such practitioners, we find that practitioners are often unable to use publicly available instruments for measuring representational harms. We identify two types of challenges. In some cases, instruments are not useful because they do not meaningfully measure what practitioners seek to measure or are otherwise misaligned with practitioner needs. In other cases, instruments---even useful instruments---are not used by practitioners due to practical and institutional barriers impeding their uptake. Drawing on measurement theory and pragmatic measurement, we provide recommendations for addressing these challenges to better meet practitioner needs.
June 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
emmharv.bsky.social
🎉 So excited to share that "Don't Forget the Teachers" has received a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025!!

@allisonkoe.bsky.social @kizilcec.bsky.social
A screenshot of our paper on the CHI program website, with a "Best Paper" badge visible. The screenshot includes the title: "Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education. The screenshot also includes the author list: Emma Harvey, Allison Koenecke, Rene F. Kizilcec.
March 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
travislloydphd.bsky.social
*NEW DATASET AND PAPER* (CHI2025): How are online communities responding to AI-generated content (AIGC)? We study this by collecting and analyzing the public rules of 300,000+ subreddits in 2023 and 2024. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Isabel Silva Corpus
sjgreenwood.bsky.social
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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emmharv.bsky.social
✨New Work✨ by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social forthcoming at #CHI2025:

"Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education

🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14592
A screenshot of our paper: Title: “Don’t Forget the Teachers”: Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education Authors: Emma Harvey, Allison Koenecke, Rene Kizilcec Abstract: Education technologies (edtech) are increasingly incorporating new features built on LLMs, with the goals of enriching the processes of teaching and learning and ultimately improving learning outcomes. However, it is still too early to understand the potential downstream impacts of LLM-based edtech. Prior attempts to map the risks of LLMs have not been tailored to education specifically, even though it is a unique domain in many respects: from its population (students are often children, who can be especially impacted by technology) to its goals (providing the ‘correct’ answer may be less important than understanding how to arrive at an answer) to its implications for higher-order skills that generalize across contexts (e.g. critical thinking and collaboration). We conducted semi-structured interviews with six edtech providers representing leaders in the K-12 space, as well as a diverse group of 23 educators with varying levels of experience with LLM-based edtech. Through a thematic analysis, we explored how each group is anticipating, observing, and accounting for potential harms from LLMs in education. We find that, while edtech providers focus primarily on mitigating technical harms, i.e. those that can be measured based solely on LLM outputs themselves, educators are more concerned about harms that result from the broader impacts of LLMs, i.e. those that require observation of interactions between students, educators, school systems, and edtech to measure. Overall, we (1) develop an education-specific overview of potential harms from LLMs, (2) highlight gaps between conceptions of harm by edtech providers and those by educators, and (3) make recommendations to facilitate the centering of educators in the design and development of edtech tools.
March 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM