Associate Professor of Information Science @Cornell; Education, Technology, AI/ML, Fairness/Equity. Opinions are my own.

Joined April 2009
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コーネル大学の調査によると、低所得層の高校生ほどAIを使って大学出願の小論文を書くようになっており、それが合格に与える”ダメージ”が大きいとのこと。 AIを使えば文章の質は表面上は上がりますが、審査官はそれを「この学生らしくない」と受け取ることがあるためと考えられています。 今回研究者らが8万1千件以上の大学入試の小論文を分析したところ、ChatGPT登場後、低所得層の学生ほどAIに頼る割合が高くなっていました。これは理にかなっており、家庭教師や塾よりAIのほうが安価だからです。 ところが、AIを使った低所得層の出願者と同じ学力・属性の高所得層を比較すると、審査結果の格差は以前より31%も広がっていました。 なぜそうなるのか、実際は研究者たちも明確な答えは出せていませんが、AIが生み出す「うまい文章」は、文化資本を持つ人々の言葉のクセに基づいており、その規範に沿って書けば書くほど、規範から遠い学生が「不自然だ」と判断されてしまう構造になっているためと推測されています。 ということは、格差はAIを使った結果を評価する側の眼差しに宿っていることになります。そこが深いポイントです。
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📣Festival of Learning 2026 🎆 June 29 – July 3, 2026 • Seoul, South Korea Co-location of AIED @AIEDconf, EDM @EDMConf2025, and L@S @LearningAtScale w/ contributions from SoLAR @SoLAResearch and ISLS @islsnews Mark your calendars, stay tuned! Website: festival-of-learning-2026.in…
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Excited to be at #lak2025 check out Kimberly Williamson’s paper today at 10:20 on Algo Appreciation among Educators! Happy to chat about the National Tutoring Observatory— we are hiring a postdoc and Asst Research Prof. nationaltutoringobservatory.…
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Excited for @LearningAtScale to be in Palermo next summer together with @AIEDconf and @EDMConf2025 and confirmed keynote by @chrispiech!
The 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Call for Papers is out! Check out all Submission Guidelines and Important Dates: learningatscale.acm.org/las2… Did we mention we are in sunny Palermo, Sicily in 2025, co-located with @AIEDconf & @EDMConf2025? @SusanRSinger @OlgaOvi @xaoch @Iriskie_Xia
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Sharing a paper just published in the Journal of Big Data! Studies have shown strong associations with writing and demography, so here we ask "who do LLMs write like?" Answer: higher social status people (with some caveats) BUT with very little variance link.springer.com/article/10…
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In addition to showing the cultural bias in GPT’s responses, we demonstrate a simple but effective control strategy to improve cultural alignment: cultural prompting, I.e. instructing the model to respond like someone from your region. It works best for the latest versions.
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Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/4Oy350Trj4S
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Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/4Oy350Trj4S
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We are hiring at @CornellInfoSci ! Open rank: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j… Cornell is a fantastic place to work, please consider applying and sharing this opportunity.

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Happy to share that @CornellInfoSci is hiring teaching faculty in all areas! Teaching Cornell students has been a wonderful experience. Please share this opportunity widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…

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What does the Life Cycle of Large Language Models look like? Check out our new BJET article mapping how LLM-based applications are developed and what biases can arise in each step. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.… arxiv.org/pdf/2407.11203 @JinsookLee1021 @cab938 @renzheyu @YannHicke
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📣Cornell Postdoc Position: Join our interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project on deterring objectionable speech online with @nataliebazarova @drewmargolin @difrad Details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j… Thank you for sharing

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Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Learning at Scale Conference are now available in the ACM Digital Library: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/1… #las24ed
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📢 Super excited to share that I'll be joining @Columbia @ColumbiaDBMI @columbiahci as an Assistant Professor in Jan'25! Pls RT: I'm hiring PhDs & Postdocs in Sp/Fa'25 in #DBMI & #CS. My lab focuses on #HCI and #AI for health. Check out orsonxu.com for more info!
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What cultural values do GPT-4o, 4, 3.5, 3 express? Using World Values Survey questions, we find GPT consistently aligns with English-speaking countries/Protestant Europe. We show that Cultural Prompting improves alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2311.14096 @yan_ytyt @OlgaOvi @BakerEDMLab
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The #las24ed program is available online: learningatscale.hosting.acm.… And if you haven't registered yet, make sure to take advantage of regular rates by July 1! @OlgaOvi @A_MartinezMones @zpardos @SusanRSinger @rebquintana @openHPI @marimar_ps @choux @cdemmansepp @BakerEDMLab
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Today is the last day to get #EarlyBird rates on registration for ACM Learning at Scale 2024 and @EDMConf2024. Co-registration options available. Join us in Atlanta! web.cvent.com/event/e0dcaf2a… #las24ed #edm2024
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The list of accepted papers is now up on the L@S 2024 website! learningatscale.acm.org/las2…
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Looking forward to meeting people at the University of Puerto Rico @UPR_Oficial for their first Congress on AI in Education adistancia.upr.edu/inteligen… #AIED #AI #Education

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