WEBINAR: Lessons on mitigating election interference
Ryan Hass Valerie Wirtschafter Mareike Ohlberg Yang Kuang-shun 楊光舜 & John Lee examine the current state of play of AI technology.

Thursday, April 11 at 8:30 AM EDT
brookings.edu/events/lessons…

As the war in Gaza approaches its 6 month mark, Brookings Foreign Policy experts take stock. Perspectives from Natan Sachs Sharan Grewal Vanda Felbab-Brown Steven Heydemann Marvin Kalb Patricia M. Kim Tanvi Madan Valerie Wirtschafter + Jeff Feltman Bruce Riedel & more brookings.edu/articles/six-m…

Nearly six months after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip, Brookings experts reflect on the conflict and humanitarian crisis.
brookings.edu/articles/six-m…

WEBINAR: Lessons on mitigating election interference
Ryan Hass Valerie Wirtschafter Mareike Ohlberg Yang Kuang-shun 楊光舜 & John Lee examine the current state of play of AI technology.

Thursday, April 11 at 8:30 AM EDT
brookings.edu/events/lessons…

Excited to be presenting at this conference this week!

I'll talk about the prevalence of generative AI in our (ongoing) WhatsApp data in India.

I looked at ~2000 'viral' content & found that gen AI content is rare: ~1% of the viral content.

paper: gvrkiran.github.io/content/genera…

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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity, Please share! 🚨

Leticia Bode, Lisa Singh and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us at Massive Data Institute (MDI) on our project on GenAI, Misinformation, and Social Media. Full-time research, no teaching required. Please reach out!

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Very happy Kiran Garimella and I are able to make this available to others...and to finally be able to collect our own data!

It has been a long process involving technical, ethical and logistical decisions with many stakeholders in at least 4 countries. It took a village... 1/3

If ever there was a day to read my dear friend Linda's work. #FreeEvanGershkovich

📢Really excited to be hosting another webinar on careers outside academia👇

📅Friday, April 12th at Noon MT on Zoom
👥Open to the public
🗣️With the great Valerie Wirtschafter Kevin Banda Steve Utych Reva Dhingra and Cody Giddings

Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Please share!

This is very very well done: 'Omissions and biases and blind spots from these stacked-up models and training sets shape all of the resulting new models and new training sets.'

knowingmachines.org/models-all-the…

Scoop: It's a generally accepted truth that Joe Rogan's podcast is the biggest on Earth (!) But how massive is his audience?

Last month, Spotify quietly started testing a feature that discloses how many followers podcasts on the platform have.

His show is almost 3X bigger than…

CrowdTangle saved my dissertation 4 years ago when I had to leave the field due to Covid. Sad to see it disappear and worried about the future state of researcher data access brandonsilverman.substack.com/p/crowdtangle-…

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Valerie Wirtschafter Valerie Wirtschafter discussing differences in foreign policy in Latin America.

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I had hoped that my reporting on the aftermath of RCTs in Western Kenya would finally get Maurice paid. He has waited over a decade for a payment of $1000. In the absence of other options, Adrian Wilson & Mario Schmidt have started a fund to deliver him the funds themselves:

I think:

1. RCTs are an incredibly important social scientific tool.

2. We have over-indexed on RCTs (vs. obs. work) in the last 15 years.

3. RCTs are not going to solve 'poverty'.

4. Social scientists need to be MUCH more careful and honest about messing with people's lives.