MIT Center for Constructive Communication https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Trust and Human Connection in the Age of AI and Social Networks Professor Deb Roy Katherine Cramer, Deb Roy. A Way to Put Public Thought In Front of Policy Makers. Conference on Democratic “Frontsliding”, 2025. realtalk@MIT About realtalk@MIT CCC Newsletter, Issue 11 Discovering the Future of WRAP via realtalk Conversations Reimagining Civil Discourse for the Next Generation Gender gap? What gender gap? 2024-2025 realtalk@MIT Annual Report Margaret Hughes, Brandon C. Roy, Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2025. Computational Analysis of Conversation Dynamics through Participant Responsivity. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 35500– 35519, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. Margaret Hughes, Cassandra Overney, Ashima Kamra, Jasmin Tepale, Elizabeth Hamby, Mahmood Jasim, and Deb Roy. 2025. Voice to Vision: A Sociotechnical System for Transparent Civic Decision-Making. In Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 525–527. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715070.3757228 Hope Schroeder*, Doug Beeferman*, Maya Detwiller, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Deb Roy. Forage: Understanding RAG-based Sensemaking for Community Conversations. CHI Extended Abstracts (Late-breaking Work) 2025. Wonjune Kang and Deb Roy. Expressive Speech Retrieval using Natural Language Descriptions of Speaking Style. In IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). IEEE. 2025. Elinor Poole-Dayan and Deb Roy. Tracing Idea Evolution in Democratic Deliberation with LLMs. Oral presentation at the First Workshop on NLP for Democracy, COLM 2025, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Suyash Fulay, William Brannon, Shrestha Mohanty, Cassandra Overney, Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. On the Relationship between Truth and Political Bias in Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9004–9018, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. Jad Kabbara, Thanh-Mai Phan, Marina Rakhilin, Maya E Detwiller, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, and Deb Roy. 2025. AI-assisted sensemaking: Human-AI collaboration for the analysis and interpretation of recorded facilitated conversations. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 655, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706688 Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara. Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks. In Proceedings of the ACL. 2025. Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. Fora: A corpus and framework for the study of facilitated dialogue. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 13985–14001, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. Roy, D., Lessig, L., & Tang, A. (2025). Conversation networks. Published in Deliberative Approaches to Inclusive Governance, part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative, Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, McGill University. Cassandra Overney MIT News: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users Anthology Elinor Poole-Dayan, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. (2026). LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users. In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). Bill Noble realtalk@Boston PBS’s FRONTLINE, Cortico, and CCC to engage youth in new Youth Civic Voices initiative FRONTLINE Social Dialogue Network Russell Stevens Suyash Fulay. (2026). Language Models to Understand, Reflect, and Address Social Fragmentation. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From Delegates to Trustees: How Optimizing for Long-Term Interests Shapes Bias and Alignment in LLMs. The Empty Chair: Using LLMs to Raise Missing Perspectives in Policy Deliberations Maya Detwiller Ali Klemencic Alice Gold Marina Rakhilin Julia Matthews People Werner Koepf We’re Hiring: UROP developer to design & build AI-mediated social interfaces Words Without Consequence | The Atlantic | Deb Roy News Homepage CCC Newsletter, Issue 12 (Fall/Winter 2025) Boston Stories, Unscripted: The realtalk@Boston Release Party Meet Boston, Unscripted: realtalk@Boston Portal Goes Live About Suyash Fulay and Deb Roy. 2025. The Empty Chair: Using LLMs to Raise Missing Perspectives in Policy Deliberations. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. CCC hosts its second Tech-Enhanced Student Assembly FRONTLINE Engages the Next Generation of Storytellers