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California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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Lucy Li
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Postdoc at UW NLP 🏔️. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. Incoming assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. lucy3.github.io
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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Pushback in a Haystack: Language Models Respond to Factual Errors Ambiguously and Ineffectively arxiv.org
AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education arxiv.org
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Learning Sciences – RISE-AI (Artificial Intelligence) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States jobs.wisc.edu
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Models are sycophantic, and when they do challenge faulty or incorrect inputs, they're ambiguous and ineffective. In a new paper w/ a multilingual co-author team, we find that people may view LM responses that push back, yet still end up believing false content is true. arxiv.…
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- Across seven LMs, 29.4% of information-seeking responses mixed pushback against a user's false claim with affirmation of it.
- Fewer than half of pushback responses contained explicit refutation; the rest softened, hedged, or qualified the correction.
- In a 300-person study, only ~28.6% of German and 28.7% of English readers labeled false statements inaccurate after indirect pushback.
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Lucy Li reposted
🚨New preprint!🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions. Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional? A th…
now that a substantial proportion of my time is spent teachng, i am so grateful for people who make their lecture slides public so mine will be public too! lucy3.github.io/cs769-fall26...
educational psych x AI jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Lucy Li reposted
New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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Starting off my first lecture later this week as a prof with a little history of NLP! Warren Weaver (known for writing a memorandum that ignited machine translation in 1949, before "artificial intelligence" was even coined as a term) did his BS and PhD at UW-Madison 🦡🧀
tfw the articles ai retrieves are also ai-generated
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