Aylin Caliskan was recognized as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, awarded by the Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) at the Brookings Institution.  

Heather Whiteman was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala to give a keynote talk titled "Human Capital in the Age of Technology: Strengthening Economies Through Technology Enhanced Workforce Development" at the 2025 Humphrey Global Policy Dialogue in Guatemala City. 

Soham De (PhD Student) and co-authors Haiwen Li, Andreas Haupt, Brad Miller, Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter, Martin Saveski, and Michiel Bakker’s paper titled “Scaling Human Judgement in Community Notes with LLMs,” was published in the Journal of Trust and Safety. 

Wes King’s paper titled “A Match Made in Heaven: Being Queer and Christian While Using Dating Apps” was published in the Journal of Gender Studies. 

Claire McDonald Indermaur (PhD Student) and Marika Cifor’s paper titled “Survival Networks: Lay Expertise and Digital Knowledge Production in the Early Years of HIV/AIDS,” was accepted to be published in Internet Histories. 

Kyra Wilson (PhD Student) and co-authors Anna-Maria Gueorguieva and Aylin Caliskan’s paper titled “No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy,” will be presented at the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAI/ACM AIES 2025). 

Kyra Wilson (PhD Student) and co-authors Sourojit Ghosh and Aylin Caliskan’s paper titled “Bias Amplification in Stable Diffusion’s Representation of Stigma Through Skin Tones and Their Homogeneity” will be presented at AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAI/ACM AIES 2025). 

Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Mattea Sim, Natalie Grace Brigham, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Tessa E. S. Charlesworth’s paper titled “Biased AI Outputs Can Impact Humans’ Implicit Bias: A Case Study of the Impact of Gender-Biased Text-to-Image Generators” will be presented at AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAI/ACM AIES 2025). 

Aylin Caliskan and co-author Gandalf Nicolas’s paper titled “What are Chatbots’ Stereotypes About? A Data-Driven Analysis of Large Language Models’ Content Associations with Social Categories” will be presented at AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAI/ACM AIES 2025). 

Yuchen Wu (PhD Student) and co-authors Edward Sun, Kaijie Zhu, Jianxun Lian, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Aylin Caliskan, and Jindong Wang’s paper titled “Personalized Safety in LLMs: A Benchmark and A Planning-Based Agent Approach” was accepted to the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025). 

Ben Lee was invited to give a talk titled “Newspaper Navigator: Collaboration, Computation & Access” at the Schmidt Sciences Humanities & AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Convening at the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence. 

Stacey Wedlake, Jason Young, Chris Jowaisas, and Cindy Jewett (James A. Tuttle Library) were all featured on a panel titled “From AI to Financial Scams: Preparing Rural Seniors for Emerging Technologies” at the Association of Small and Rural Libraries (ARSL) Conference.  

Stacey Wedlake, Brenda Hornsby Heindl (Liberty Public Library), Tamara Evans (Beaumont Library District), and Amy Stone (Bridgton Public Library) were all featured on a panel titled “Inclusive Practices Through Engaging Rural Communities” at the Association of Small and Rural Libraries (ARSL) Conference.  

Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student) was interviewed by Nature about his paper exploring the career trajectories of retracted scientists, featured in the recent article "Retractions can reshape scientists' careers in unexpected ways." 

Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “FTC Investigation Targets Risks of AI Chatbots for Teens and Children” published on AI Business.