Auditing and Mitigating Cultural Bias in LLMs

no code implementations • 23 Nov 2023 • Yan Tao, Olga Viberg, Ryan S. Baker, Rene F. Kizilcec

Culture fundamentally shapes people's reasoning, behavior, and communication.

Augmenting Holistic Review in University Admission using Natural Language Processing for Essays and Recommendation Letters

no code implementations • 30 Jun 2023 • Jinsook Lee, Bradon Thymes, Joyce Zhou, Thorsten Joachims, Rene F. Kizilcec

University admission at many highly selective institutions uses a holistic review process, where all aspects of the application, including protected attributes (e. g., race, gender), grades, essays, and recommendation letters are considered, to compose an excellent and diverse class.

On the limits of algorithmic prediction across the globe

no code implementations • 28 Mar 2021 • Xingyu Li, Difan Song, Miaozhe Han, Yu Zhang, Rene F. Kizilcec

We tested how well predictive models of human behavior trained in a developed country generalize to people in less developed countries by modeling global variation in 200 predictors of academic achievement on nationally representative student data for 65 countries.

Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships

no code implementations • 10 Feb 2021 • Jess Hohenstein, Dominic DiFranzo, Rene F. Kizilcec, Zhila Aghajari, Hannah Mieczkowski, Karen Levy, Mor Naaman, Jeff Hancock, Malte Jung

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now widely used to facilitate social interaction, but its impact on social relationships and communication is not well understood.