Spring 2025

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Date	Title	Details
February 02, 2025	Deepseek and AI Regulation	Readings Deepseek R1 Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believes About A.I. (optional) Silicon Valley's New Red Scare (optional) I also encourage you to check out some of R1's output, either through playing with it yourself or checking out writers' posts online
February 11, 2025	Post-Growth HCI	Readings Post-growth HCI: Researching Human-Computer Interaction for Economic Degrowth Hongjin recommends reading the whole paper, but if you don’t have enough time for the whole paper, please read the intro (and ideally through section 3: Page 1 - 12).
February 25, 2025	Copyright and Artificial Intelligence	Readings Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Tyler will lead discussion on AI + copyright based on the report's executive summary.
March 04, 2025	Gender and Political Biases of Language Models	Readings Measuring Implicit Bias in Explicitly Unbiased Large Language Models Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect? ChatGPT Doesn’t Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context (optional) The political ideology of conversational AI: Converging evidence on ChatGPT’s pro-environmental, left-libertarian orientation (optional)
March 11, 2025	The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	Readings The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
March 25, 2025	Community-Engaged HCI Research	Readings “I never realized sidewalks were a big deal”: A Case Study of a Community-Driven Sidewalk Accessibility Assessment using Project Sidewalk Everyday Algorithm Auditing: Understanding the Power of Everyday Users in Surfacing Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors (optional) Null Compliance: NYC Local Law 144 and the Challenges of Algorithm Accountability (optional)
April 01, 2025	Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation	Readings Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation
April 08, 2025	A Decision Theoretic Framework for Measuring AI Reliance	Readings A Decision Theoretic Framework for Measuring AI Reliance
April 15, 2025	Affect: From Information to Interaction	Readings Affect: From Information to Interaction
April 22, 2025	Building Machines that Learn and Think with People.	Readings Building Machines that Learn and Think with People