How are AI tools changing our writing process? In our #chi2026 paper, we find a shift in the way writers write and engage with ideas: from generating ideas to reacting to the ones AI surfaces. We call it reactive writing.
Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/
🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”.
Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
As usual on point from @garymarcus.bsky.social . AI as a persuasion agent is a dangerous tool (Gary gives our work as an example, but there's a lot more, see thread) and our best guess should be that the recent Trump Executive Order on AI Bias does not intend to fix it (or fix AI Bias). Thread 1/
I've been looking for ways to estimate the persuasive impact of deployed LLM products, beyond our little controlled experiments.
IssueBench by @paul-rottger.bsky.social and team reads like it can provide some grounding to conversation of opinions and influence of LLMs in the wild 👌
