Chris Bail (chris_bail_duke 🧵)
@chris_bail
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Duke Professor directing https://t.co/U2L73v1dpE, https://t.co/fQ330fVoR7 & https://t.co/tVyZCAm6A9 author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Duke U. (views are my own)
Joined November 2012
What is the only thing cooler than one of your favorite columnists writing about one's book? When she offers a fascinating elaboration of your argument: maybe social media polarizes us because we were never meant to connect with so many different people
"On the Internet, exposure to people unlike us often makes us hate them, and that hatred increasingly structures our politics," argues @michelleinbklyn.
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RT @MaryMuyonga: We look forward to Week 2️⃣ #SICSSKENYA2025.Our Guest Speakers👇🏿 . ✅️@BlessingManB discusses #Artificial #Intelligence, #A….
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It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya!
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Stay tuned for exciting announcements about events and other networking opportunities for those interesting Society-Centered AI that we will host in Durham this fall in case you missed our Responsible AI Symposium featuring @yannlecun:
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This effort, launched by our Society-Centered AI Initiative ( will compliment our new undergraduate courses in AI and society and-- we hope-- seed a new generation of researchers to spread the gospel of society-centered AI.
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Excited to announce we are launching a Graduate Certificate in Society-Centered AI at Duke w/coursework in computer science, social science, and philosophy/ethics and provide support to 12 current Duke students each year thanks to a new $2.4 million grant
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RT @RobbWiller: Bernie is well aligned with the social science literature in this take. There's good reason "non-violent discipline" is c….
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RT @iamRobFeld: I was honored to present Jesters and Fools at the @LibertyMuseum preview event for their latest exhibition. Grateful to hav….
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Some nice coverage of our responsible AI symposium at Duke this spring- join us next year!
"The grand challenge [for AI] is how do we capitalize on the benefits and mitigate the risks.”. The Responsible AI Symposium at Duke brought together global experts to explore how society-centered AI can shape a safer, more ethical future—across disciplines.
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New paper suggests conversations with an LLM may increase people's support for climate change interventions:
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Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time:
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Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science!
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Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities:
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Timely wisdom in light of recent attacks on science and immigration!.
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I had the great honor to award Yann LeCun Duke's "Distinguished Lectureship in Society-Centered AI." One of my favorite parts of his lecture was his argument that one of the greatest risks of future AI models is that they may not be built by a diverse enough group of people.
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RT @maya_sen: Harvard prez announcing staff AND faculty hiring freezes for this semester and possibly longer . A very ominous sign for the….
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Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI:
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Amazing lecture on creating confidence metrics within multi-agent LLM frameworks by UNC's @mohitban47 here at Duke's Responsible AI Symposium today. You can still join for Yann LeCun and Ronnie Chatterji later today:
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New preprint suggests large language models use trigonometry to do addition: .
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