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 Katherine Cramer, Deb Roy. A Way to Put Public Thought In Front of Policy Makers. Conference on Democratic “Frontsliding”, 2025. Forage Kessler, Daniel and Dimitrakopoulou, Dimitra and Roy, Deb, Hearing Personal Experiences Improves Social Evaluations Compared to Personal Opinions, Especially for Polarized Parties (October 08, 2024). Preprint available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4978495 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4978495 realtalk@MIT 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 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 Werner Koepf People About realtalk@MIT David McClure Luke Guolong Wang Mostafa ‘Neo’ Mohsenvand Mina Soltangheis Sophie Chou Pau Perng-Hwa Kung Soroush Vosoughi Prashanth Vijayaraghavan Ann Yuan Sneha Priscilla Makini Lauren Fratamico Marc Exposito Gomez Shayne O’Brien Nazmus Saquib Juliana Nazare Ivan Sysoev Martin Saveski 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 Professor Deb Roy 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.