Ethan Busby
@EthanBusby
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Parent. Spouse. Political Scientist @BYUPoliticalSci : Political psychology, extremism, research methods, populism. @BYU undergrad and @PoliSciatNU grad alum
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Computational Political Scientists: @EthanBusby and I are organizing a CWC at @spsanews on Generative Language Models. Apply by August 16; Conference in Puerto Rico Jan 8 - 11. Please apply and circulate widely!
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Apply here for a Conference-Within-a-Conference to be held at the 2025 SPSA Annual Meeting, January 8 - 11 Caribe Hilton, San Juan Puerto Rico. CWC Scope: The topic of the CWC is Generative Language...
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If you are shocked and horrified by this attack, like me, now is the time to tell your followers that you are one of the ~97% of Americans who unequivocally condemn political violence. Don't let the 3% speak for you:
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Political scientists, pundits, and citizens worry that America is entering a new period of violent partisan conflict. Provocative survey data show ...
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New Article! Using text analysis and survey experiments, we show that although people talk about cancel culture in terms of democratic values, in-group vs. out-group partisan dynamics are what actually shift people's support for "canceling" different actors. @EthanBusby
In #FirstView by Elle Diether (@UTAustin), Suzy Yi (@BYU), Lisa P. Argyle (@BYU), and Ethan C. Busby (@BYU): "The Political Psychology of Cancel Culture: Value Framing or Group Identity?"
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Can't wait to be a part of this fantastic event!
🚨Don't forget to join us tomorrow at Shaw Library (Floor 6, Old Building, LSE) for a full-day event showcasing latest research on generative AI in social science research from scholars at @LSEnews, @UniofOxford, @BYU and @uni_tue. We look forward to welcoming you all!
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🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) :
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Generative AI that can produce realistic text, images, and other human-like outputs is currently transforming many different industries. Yet it is ...
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Check out our new paper! Thanks to @sayashk for leading this amazing project.
Excited to share that our paper introducing the REFORMS checklist is now out @ScienceAdvances! In it, we: - review common errors in ML for science - create a checklist of 32 items applicable across disciplines - provide in-depth guidelines for each item https://t.co/M21VWGIZhC
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Science education is so vital. Check out the amazing work of "Science Journal for Kids" which recently covered our research on using AI chatbots: https://t.co/EfHs412fub Lots of other amazing content created by a small but mighty team. Please share or support them!
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Researchers wanted to see if AI assistants can improve online political discussions. Scientific article for students.
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My new piece in @HarvardBiz describes our work using AI to perform conflict mediation on social media, and how it inspired a new intervention by NextDoor which resulted in a 15% decrease in toxic content!
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Online conversations are famously fraught, which creates challenges for people communicating on online platforms, including those used for workplace collaboration. New research suggests that these...
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🚨 Language Model APSA Preconference🚨 Applications now open for the UPenn/Princeton LM APSA preconference (hosted by me and @nick_pangakis). Deadline is April 19. Please circulate and apply to present/discuss/attend! https://t.co/xl36SYjw63
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Hopping on here to share a paper that has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!! Titled “Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy.” /1
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This paper benefited from comments and help from too many people to name @BYU_CSED , @BYUPoliticalSci , and lots of other conferences. Thanks to all of those who dramatically improved the paper
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We encourage future research into the ways that advances in technological tools like LMs can be used to address (rather than just exacerbate) political conflicts and crises facing democratic societies across the globe
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...manipulating participants views on gun policy. There are good reasons to be worried about artificial intelligence being used to spread misinformation or polarize, but our findings indicate it may be useful for promoting respect, understanding, and democratic reciprocity...
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We found that this intervention increased conversational quality and also a willingness to understand and allow the expression of opposing viewpoints in the political system in general. We find these results while allowing humans agency to choose what to do and without...
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...we prompted to rephrase people's messages to encourage more understanding and democratic reciprocity. Treated individuals could then choose to accept one of these rephrasings, make modifications, or stick with their original messages.
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...as an at-scale, real-time moderator in divisive political conversations. We paired real people in the U.S. to have converastions with other real people they disagreed with about gun regulation. Some of them were randomly assigned to get suggestions from a GPT-3 model...
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New article @PNASNews with @joshua_gubler , @lpargyle , @chris_bail , @davidwingate , @ma_tay_ , Vin Howe, and @ChrisRytting on how AI tools can improve democratic discourse. It's open access at this link: https://t.co/vmkIsa4JaV We explore how an AI chat assistant can act...
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Political discourse is the soul of democracy, but misunderstanding and conflict can fester in divisive conversations. The widespread shift to onlin...
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🚨New paper🚨 out @NatureHumBehav today! w/ the @polarizationlab @DukeU What happens when strangers from opposing political parties are paired together to chat about politics online? Answer: mostly good things! https://t.co/QAFAinD06A ungated: https://t.co/sMTbB95ZJK
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New article just dropped!!! (PS it’s open access) "Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy" 1/
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