Michael Bernstein
@mbernst.bsky.social
CS Professor at Stanford
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
🚨New WP!🚨
Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life
In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.
Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky
🧵👇
Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life
In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.
Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky
🧵👇
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨New WP!🚨
Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life
In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.
Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky
🧵👇
Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life
In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.
Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky
🧵👇
Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!
I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in School of Engineering, Design
facultypositions.stanford.edu
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!
I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!
Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!
July 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!
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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!
I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!
May 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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!
I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
Very cool to see this research developed into a policy brief! Impactful work from a superstar team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social
@cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, @robbwiller.bsky.social Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
@cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, @robbwiller.bsky.social Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...
May 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Very cool to see this research developed into a policy brief! Impactful work from a superstar team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social
@cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, @robbwiller.bsky.social Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
@cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, @robbwiller.bsky.social Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
Take a 👀 at this policy brief from @stanfordhai.bsky.social on how AI agents can test ideas in social science. Honored to be part of this amazing team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...
May 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Take a 👀 at this policy brief from @stanfordhai.bsky.social on how AI agents can test ideas in social science. Honored to be part of this amazing team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
A policy brief on what generative AI simulations of people might be good for! (based on work with the amazing team of @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @mako.cc @robbwiller.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social Merrie Morris, Carrie Cai, and Percy Liang)
AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A policy brief on what generative AI simulations of people might be good for! (based on work with the amazing team of @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @mako.cc @robbwiller.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social Merrie Morris, Carrie Cai, and Percy Liang)
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
📣 Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time)
Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...
Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📣 Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time)
Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...
Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...
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Should we use LLMs 🤖 to simulate human research subjects 🧑? In our new preprint, we argue sims can augment human studies to scale up social science as AI technology accelerates. We identify 5 tractable challenges and argue this is a promising and underused research method 🧪🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2504.02234
LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method
Accurate and verifiable large language model (LLM) simulations of human research subjects promise an accessible data source for understanding human behavior and training new AI systems. However, resul...
arxiv.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Should we use LLMs 🤖 to simulate human research subjects 🧑? In our new preprint, we argue sims can augment human studies to scale up social science as AI technology accelerates. We identify 5 tractable challenges and argue this is a promising and underused research method 🧪🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2504.02234
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
This might be the most useful thing I have come across in social media - a personalized feed of academic papers filtered by your follower network! Highly recommend. #academicsky
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This might be the most useful thing I have come across in social media - a personalized feed of academic papers filtered by your follower network! Highly recommend. #academicsky
Step 1) Install the #chi2025 module to your Claude/ChatGPT: knollapp.com/add/ZlRKvCmB...
Step 2) Ask the LLM, "Given my interests, what are some CHI 2025 papers I should check out?" (If the model doesn't already know your interests, you might need to state them.)
Step 2) Ask the LLM, "Given my interests, what are some CHI 2025 papers I should check out?" (If the model doesn't already know your interests, you might need to state them.)
March 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Step 1) Install the #chi2025 module to your Claude/ChatGPT: knollapp.com/add/ZlRKvCmB...
Step 2) Ask the LLM, "Given my interests, what are some CHI 2025 papers I should check out?" (If the model doesn't already know your interests, you might need to state them.)
Step 2) Ask the LLM, "Given my interests, what are some CHI 2025 papers I should check out?" (If the model doesn't already know your interests, you might need to state them.)
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta
meta.wikimedia.org
March 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!
March 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
It was great to see so many attendees at the seminar from Michael Bernstein on Friday. Thanks for visiting, @mbernst.bsky.social.
The recording of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" is available at the web page below.
@kenholstein.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social
The recording of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" is available at the web page below.
@kenholstein.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It was great to see so many attendees at the seminar from Michael Bernstein on Friday. Thanks for visiting, @mbernst.bsky.social.
The recording of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" is available at the web page below.
@kenholstein.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social
The recording of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" is available at the web page below.
@kenholstein.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
Our next #HCIISeminarSeries talk & Sujeath Pareddy Memorial Lecture will be Michael Bernstein
@mbernst.bsky.social of Stanford University.
🎙️"Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
📅 Feb. 28, 2025
🕜1:30pm ET
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗 Details: hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2...
@mbernst.bsky.social of Stanford University.
🎙️"Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
📅 Feb. 28, 2025
🕜1:30pm ET
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗 Details: hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2...
HCII Seminar Series - Michael Bernstein | Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Michael Bernstein is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he is a Bass University Fellow and Interim Director of the Symbolic Systems program. His research focuses ...
hcii.cmu.edu
February 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our next #HCIISeminarSeries talk & Sujeath Pareddy Memorial Lecture will be Michael Bernstein
@mbernst.bsky.social of Stanford University.
🎙️"Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
📅 Feb. 28, 2025
🕜1:30pm ET
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗 Details: hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2...
@mbernst.bsky.social of Stanford University.
🎙️"Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior"
📅 Feb. 28, 2025
🕜1:30pm ET
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗 Details: hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2...
Weiser (2025)—Sal awakens: she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock had quietly asked "coffee?", and she had mumbled "OK." Her Alexa alarm clock did its best with the mumbled response: "Playing OK Go." Sal cried out: "Alexa, stop!" The assistant leered at her. "Alexa. Alexa! ALEXA!"
February 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Weiser (2025)—Sal awakens: she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock had quietly asked "coffee?", and she had mumbled "OK." Her Alexa alarm clock did its best with the mumbled response: "Playing OK Go." Sal cried out: "Alexa, stop!" The assistant leered at her. "Alexa. Alexa! ALEXA!"
The move to use LLMs to enforce platform codes of conduct is going to expose all the intentional vagueness in the policies. LLMs can certainly enforce what is written in the policies, but I bet it’s going to yield a bunch of undesired changes to enforcement patterns.
February 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The move to use LLMs to enforce platform codes of conduct is going to expose all the intentional vagueness in the policies. LLMs can certainly enforce what is written in the policies, but I bet it’s going to yield a bunch of undesired changes to enforcement patterns.
Applications to the Stanford Symbolic Systems lecturer position is due on the 15th. If you're interested in teaching and mentoring careers in academia, consider applying!
Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program is hiring a three-year lecturer position: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
Stanford University, Symbolic Systems Program
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Applications to the Stanford Symbolic Systems lecturer position is due on the 15th. If you're interested in teaching and mentoring careers in academia, consider applying!
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
📣 The #CSCW2026 deadline (@acm-cscw.bsky.social) has been posted. Big change this year. There is **only one deadline** for 2026 and it is May 13, 2025. 📣
Please spread the word!
#CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Please spread the word!
#CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
CALL FOR PAPERS – CSCW 2025
cscw.acm.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📣 The #CSCW2026 deadline (@acm-cscw.bsky.social) has been posted. Big change this year. There is **only one deadline** for 2026 and it is May 13, 2025. 📣
Please spread the word!
#CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
Please spread the word!
#CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing
cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
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I thoroughly enjoy reading this methods paper by McGrath (1981) www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/52... He views the research process as not a set of problems that need to be solved but dilemmas that need to be lived with. There is not "one true" method free of limitations; all are flawed in dif ways
January 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I thoroughly enjoy reading this methods paper by McGrath (1981) www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/52... He views the research process as not a set of problems that need to be solved but dilemmas that need to be lived with. There is not "one true" method free of limitations; all are flawed in dif ways
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
January 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
Reposted by Michael Bernstein
How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
How do people *really* read Wikipedia? 📖 👀
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
We explored how readers navigate, fall into rabbit holes, and engage with information in a chapter for the ‘Handbook of Computational Social Science,’ edited by @tahayasseri.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the full book! 📚
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939
Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program is hiring a three-year lecturer position: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
Stanford University, Symbolic Systems Program
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
academicjobsonline.org
January 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program is hiring a three-year lecturer position: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
Problematic incentives for faculty parking
January 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Problematic incentives for faculty parking
Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...
January 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...