William J. Brady
@williambrady.bsky.social
Associate prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
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✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
Reposted by William J. Brady, Laurent Dubois, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing.
If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so.
If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so.
If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.