Empirical evidence that people can build highly predictive mental models of even complex AIs, if and only if the algorithm fulfills three criteria:
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Empirical evidence that people can build highly predictive mental models of even complex AIs, if and only if the algorithm fulfills three criteria:
📣📣📣📣📣We CAN understand complex algorithms (under certain conditions) 🥳🥳🥳
A search for factors for algorithm understanding results in multiple terms displayed as documents, including available, compact, and aligned. These are shown to be necessary and sufficient. Other, similar terms are shown in the background faded, like intuitive, rule-based, grounded, modular, linear, decomposable, accurate, symbolic, causal, and personalized.
Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no.
People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966
A circular flow diagram that compares current and proposed practices for LLM development using data from adopters and non-adopters. Three gray boxes represent current practices: “R&D,” “Chat Models,” and “Adopters’ Needs and Usage Data,” connected in a clockwise loop with black arrows. A blue box labeled “Non-adopters’ Needs and Usage Data” adds a proposed feedback path, shown with blue arrows, linking non-adopter data back to R&D and adopters’ data.
As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT.
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
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I got GRFP this upcoming year and I’m attending Harvard in the fall, but I didn’t get any info on this…. on my portal it still says “awarded”
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Sunnie presenting her paper; the slide shows the paper title, authors, and funding acknowledgements
#CHI2025 = friends, friends, and friends (many not in the pics) 🥰 Research can be lonely, so moments like these are special! Thank you all for an amazing week of learning and fun. Hope to be back soon!!
I am presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) my TOCHI Microsoft work “Generation Probabilities Are Not Enough: Uncertainty Highlighting in AI Code Completions” at ~11:55am in G301 :) should be fun 🥳
work done w/ @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @adamfourney.bsky.social @gaganbansal.bsky.social 🤩
Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle!
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Big congratulations to @helenasresearch.bsky.social on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! cra.org/about/awards...