Embedding democratic values into social media AIs via societal objective functions

C Jia, MS Lam, MC Mai, JT Hancock… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Mounting evidence indicates that the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank our social
media feeds bear nontrivial responsibility for amplifying partisan animosity: negative …

New Worlds Arise: Online Trust and Safety

T Tyler, T Meares, M Katsaros - Annual Review of Criminology, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades around the world, people's social lives are increasingly occurring
within online digital spaces. Throughout this transition, social media platforms have been …

[HTML][HTML] Decentralized social networks and the future of free speech online

T Huang - Computer Law & Security Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Decentralized social networks like Mastodon and BlueSky are trending topics that have
drawn much attention and discussion in recent years. By devolving powers from the central …

The Moral Case for Using Language Model Agents for Recommendation

S Lazar, L Thorburn, T **, L Belli - ar** AI's Impact on Billions of Lives
MF Cuéllar, J Dean, F Doshi-Velez, J Hennessy… - ar** Comment Section Behavior
F Choi, C Lambert, V Koshy, S Pratipati, T Do… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Much of the research in online moderation focuses on punitive actions. However, emerging
research has shown that positive reinforcement is effective at encouraging desirable …

Generative AI regulation can learn from social media regulation

RE Appel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.11335, 2024 - arxiv.org
There is strong agreement that generative AI should be regulated, but strong disagreement
on how to approach regulation. While some argue that AI regulation should mostly rely on …