This year, MIT student SERC Scholars teamed up with students from HBCUs to design and implement research projects on generative AI and democracy. Please join us on May 12 anytime from 12pm-1pm for a casual pick-up lunch in the Stata Center’s TSMC lobby as you explore these students’ posters and interactive projects.

• Human vs. AI-generated Political Arguments: This study examines how human-written versus AI-generated persuasive arguments from political parties affect participant opinions. 

• Social Media Algorithms, User Experience, and Polarization: This project explores people’s social media experiences and user journeys and studies how demographic differences changes those experiences.  

• Deliberate Self-Questioning: Socratic and Forced Argumentation Games on Deliberation.io: This project examines the effectiveness of interventions involving (i) Socratic questioning and (ii) forced defense of an opposing perspective at reducing polarization.

Co-sponsored by SERC, GovLab, and MIT Radius.