Yara Kyrychenko
PhD candidate @Cambridge | Responsible AI, intergroup conflict, misinfo, social media | yarakyrychenko.github.io
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoWhatsApp responded to the findings of our new Cambridge Trust and Safety index: "WhatsApp said in a statement that it welcomed the research into an industry it said was "aiming to mislead internet services." Unsurprisingly, X did not return messages seeking comment www.reuters.com/business/med...
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoPress release www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pric...
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoNew paper out in @science.org! We unveil the online manipulation market with the Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI). We show in real time the cost of purchasing fake accounts across every social platform around the world - so they can be held accountable www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoNew paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵
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- Excited to share that I’ve been shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards in Artificial Intelligence! 🎉 awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-c...
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- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoToday (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 🧵:
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoThe combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy. Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...
- Excited to be part of the Riga StratCom Dialogue this year!
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- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoWho is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it). Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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- Had a great time on ePODstemology talking with @markfabian.bsky.social about my research on socially responsible AI. Tune in! 🎙️🤖
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoGreat to see the Climate Change Committee (CCC) calling for public figures to “lead by example” on climate change, citing our research. CCC says leading by example increases public buy-in and behaviour change @thecccuk.bsky.social 🚨So, we've made this new infographic showing how it works... 🧵
- Reposted by Yara KyrychenkoOut in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Yara Kyrychenko“There is no theory crisis in psychological science” Few quotes…🧵
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- Reposted by Yara Kyrychenko🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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- Thank @savcisens.com for the insightful review of our recent paper! Great new year’s present 🎉
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- Here is a very brief summary for @gatescambridge.bsky.social News with @tiancheng.bsky.social: www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/a...
- 🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Social identity biases—favoring one’s own group (ingroup solidarity) and derogating others (outgroup hostility)—are deeply rooted in human psychology. But are these biases also present in AI systems like LLMs? 2/
