The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

The philosopher John Rawls proposed the Veil of Ignorance (VoI) as a thought experiment
to identify fair principles for governing a society. Here, we apply the VoI to an important …

Social media platforms moderate content for each user by incorporating the outputs of both
platform-wide content moderation systems and, in some cases, user-configured personal …

A growing literature on human-AI decision-making investigates strategies for combining
human judgment with statistical models to improve decision-making. Research in this area …

Mounting evidence indicates that the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank our social
media feeds bear nontrivial responsibility for amplifying partisan animosity: negative …

Over the past two decades around the world, people's social lives are increasingly occurring
within online digital spaces. Throughout this transition, social media platforms have been …

This paper introduces RiskCards, a framework for structured assessment and
documentation of risks associated with an application of language models. As with all …

How can online communities execute a focused vision for their space? Curation offers one
approach, where community leaders manually select content to share with the community …

This paper focuses on the opportunities and the ethical and societal risks posed by
advanced AI assistants. We define advanced AI assistants as artificial agents with natural …

Fairness metrics have become a useful tool to measure how fair or unfair a machine
learning system may be for its stakeholders. In the context of recommender systems …