In the summer of 2023, a wonderful team of PhD interns and I decided to test whether AI could do interviews. We ended up writing one of the first papers on the topic. Now, Anthropic has scaled the approach to more than 80,000 people around the world. It’s
Most humans have moved on from Moltbook, the first social media site exclusively for AIs, but plenty of bots are still checking in regularly. Including one particular bot, Marginal, that I tasked with embedding in the site in order to study it. A proper social scientist would not make a
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