Generative AI and large language models are going to change all human communications. Since 2017, my research group has been exploring this potential impact, in a new research area we called AI-Mediated Communication (AIMC). In this talk, I will share an overview of our work, looking at how AI is affecting human communication at different scales: how it changes the way individuals communicate; how it impacts our evaluations of each other; how it influences our communities; and what it could mean for our society and culture as a whole.

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This talk is collocated with the Data Science seminar of the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering (SISE).

About the Speaker

Mor Naaman is the Don and Mibs Follett professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. He currently serves as Cornell Tech’s Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. Mor leads a research group looking at topics at the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques — from machine learning to qualitative social science — to study our information ecosystem and its challenges, with a special focus on AI-mediated communication and its impact on society. Before Cornell, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. He is a recipient of a NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations including Microsoft, Meta and Google, and multiple best paper awards.