🚨New Preprint: "Generative language models exhibit social identity biases" Did you know LLMs mirror human-like biases, showing human-levels of ingroup solidarity & outgroup hostility? A thread: 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2310.15819 1/7

That incredible feeling when you see our PI Susana Carmona design a cover depicting our PhD student María Paternina-Die holding her newborn. Maria is the first co-author of the study, and she became a first-time mom during the completion of the study. We couldn't be happier 🧡

🚨 Announcement: DLATK is now available as a colab notebook! github.com/dlatk/dlatk/bl… DLATK is a suite for end-to-end human language analysis, used in 100+ AI/NLP/Psych papers. This was lead by Shashanka Subrahmanya, joint with Salvatore Giorgi, Adithya V Ganesan, johannes Eichstaedt, and World Well-Being Prj 🧵1/4

💻Now easy and on colab :: For a decade, we've developed an open-source NLP Python codebase (DLATK) that allows you to run a paper's worth of NLP in 5-10 easy commands. Dictionary (LIWC...) extraction takes two commands. Used in 100+ papers, 10+ labs, always reproducible,

I'm giving a talk tomorrow at Columbia-- Public Health (Thur 2/29, 1-2.30pm) -- NLP and LLMs for mental health. “Using Digital Text and LLMs to Understand and Improve Individual and Community Mental Health” If you happen to be around and free, please join!

I do not believe human-level AI (artificial superintelligence, or the commonest sense of #AGI) is close at hand. AI has made breakthroughs, but the claim of AGI by 2030 is as laughable as claims of AGI by 1980 are in retrospect. Look how similar the rhetoric was in LIFE in 1970!

I'm elated to announce that my new book, HOPE FOR CYNICS, will be published on September 3rd! It explains why people have lost faith in one another, and how we can build a sturdier, data-driven hope. You can find more information and pre-order here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jamil-z…

🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨 Our new paper (led by Jonne Kamphorst) out this week PNASNews finds: Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇

Momentary realization: SpaceX is aiming for costs to space of a few ~$100s/kg. I am hereby preregistering that Palo Alto parents will finance their high school kids launching a satellite to space to beef up their kids' college application to Stanford.

We are excited to announce our shared task on Empathy and Personality detection in multi-modal text (conversations, essays, and news articles) happening at WASSA 2024 (at ACL). Please visit our website for details codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/1… #NLProc #ACL2024NLP

Our Lab is looking to hire 2 new members! We are searching for an enthusiastic data scientist and project coordinator. This role will include training in key psychological natural language processing methods and is an excellent stepping stone for pursuing graduate studies!

Our lab is looking to hire an hourly data scientist and an hourly research coordinator! have a look if interested.

Such cool & impressive work--GPT4 simulating how users will respond to text stimuli (r > .8). > Is this the future of power analyses in papers & grants? > Will science become "human-replicating" AI experiments? > bigger Q: What can we do NOW that we couldn't do before?

This @stanfordhai Policy Brief outlines a framework developed by Stanford researchers (including AIMI Center's johannes Eichstaedt) to evaluate & report on whether #AI applications are ready for clinical use in #BehavioralHealth. Kudos to all involved! stanford.io/3MfOON9