Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder, CEO & Chair, Cortico; Professor at MIT
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MIT announces Center for Constructive Communication!!
We will create new spaces for underheard voices & nuanced perspectives, design communication tools & methods for beneficial impact in collaboration with communities, influencers & organizations.
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22 Jul 2025
🗣️ Excited to share our new #ACL2025 Findings paper: “Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks” with @jad_kabbara and @dkroy. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15821
Read about our findings ⤵️
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A new way to have real conversations open.spotify.com/episode/6xL…
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⭐️ Our newsletter is here!
Discover our latest powerful partnerships, tech advancements, and inspiring new connections.
Read now!
👉mailchi.mp/cortico/june2024
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My daughter and her friend (whose direct family was impacted by cancer), both in high school, cofounded this online art shop to support cancer research. I hope you can take a look at the beautiful artifacts made by them for a cause important to all of us: arts-for-charity.com
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📢 We’re proud to announce our collaboration with @DemocracyNext to prototype and pilot new technologies for a tech-enhanced Citizens Assembly.
🔍 Learn more about Citizens’ Assemblies and about the collaboration on our website: ccc.mit.edu/pressmedia/ccc-a…
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BIG news!
At Cortico, our mission is to restore trust across communities, divides, and America. Today, we're thrilled to share a remarkable achievement we've been part of, in collaboration with @americanacad 🧵
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🎧 Need a podcast recommendation? Listen to "On With Kara Swisher" @karaswisher and her podcast episode featuring @alexisohanian and CCC Director @dkroy discussing Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy.
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21 Oct 2023
What would it take for the internet to live up to its early promise of making democratic societies better? @dkroy has been studying the question and innovating for years. Here is his report:
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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19 Oct 2023
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29 Aug 2023
This year’s @startseu Conference program brings together many exciting speakers like @_KarenHao, @F_Kaltheuner, @dkroy, @GiadaPistilli and @Bernd_Fesel! Thu 7. Sep 2023 11:00 - 17:00 at POSTCITY conference hall. ars.electronica.art/who-owns…
ALT S T ARTS Day: Residency. But How? Photo: Philipp Greindl
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This past Wednesday, MIT CCC RAs Maggie Hughes @_maggatronn , Naana Obeng-Marnu @naana_om, Cassandra Lee @cassandranlee along with audio engineer Spencer Russell were hard at work setting up a demo of “Collective Echos,” at the MIT Media Lab @medialab
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14 Jul 2023
We caught up with @dkroy about building healthier digital forums, how humans and machines might work best together, and why A.I. is a critical tool for civic engagement.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication Cortico has launched effort to develop trusted spaces for meaningful, nonpolarizing human connection and civic impact w/ $21M in new commitments. Grateful to Project Liberty and others for their support. news.mit.edu/2023/mits-cente…
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7 Apr 2023
New paper 📢📰📺📻: “Language models trained on media diets can predict public opinion”
with @jacobandreas, Stephen Ansolabehere, @dkroy
arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2303.16779
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My thoughts on the meaning of ChatGPT, LLMs, and generative AI as it relates to @cortico's work on real talk and real listening. cortico.ai/news/chatgpt-beyo…
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I am so excited about the possibilities ahead in deepening our work with @raneyaronson and @frontlinepbs!
We’re delighted to announce @raneyaronson as CCC journalist-in-residence. Raney will continue her leadership roles as editor-in-chief and executive producer of @GBH’s @frontlinepbs. ccc.mit.edu/gbhs-raney-arons… 1/4
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Editor-in-Chief and Exec. Producer @raneyaronson of @GBH's @frontlinepbs has been named journalist-in-residence at @CCCatMIT. While continuing on with FRONTLINE, she will help the CCC at MIT team to understand competing and false narratives in the media. bit.ly/3ZsuBIu
ALT Raney Aronson-Rath profile. Photo courtesy: Rahoul Ghose/PBS.
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Deb Roy retweeted
27 Feb 2023
Pleased to announce our new @frontlinepbs partnership with @CCCatMIT. @frontlinepbs began collaborating w/ CCC over 5 years ago, trying to understand how media information bubbles lead to political polarization. I'm thrilled to continue that work w/ @dkroy ccc.mit.edu/gbhs-raney-arons…
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Dear Twitter engineers, please check us out!
Help us build and scale a new kind of social dialogue network and conversation platform optimized for real talk, real listening & healthy democracy. We are looking for a VP of Engineering, and expect to be seeking help on many other fronts beyond! cortico.ai/careers/vp-of-eng…
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