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DONDENA Seminar - Theo Araujo

Theo Araujo
Room 3-B3-SR01 - Via Roentgen, 1
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“Trust in generative AI: Emerging findings about our daily interactions” 

SPEAKER: Theo Araujo (University of Amsterdam).

ABSTRACT:

Conversational generative AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini are gaining prominence in our daily lives. As their capabilities enable an increasingly diverse usage, by an increasingly diverse set of individuals, it becomes crucial to understand both how we use these technologies, and the extent to which we trust them for a range of tasks. This lecture outlines a set of recent research on trust-and-use dynamics of conversational generative AI, and invites the audience to reflect on a research agenda towards the future.

 

BIO: 

Theo Araujo is Professor of Media, Organisations and Society at the University of Amsterdam. He is the principal investigator of cAlibrate, a project funded by the NWO Vidi program investigating use and trust calibration on Generative AI, and of the Digital Data Donation Infrastructure (D3I), coordinating a consortium of six universities creating a national infrastructure for data donation. He is also one of the co-directors of the Research Priority Area Trust in the Digital Society and a senior researcher at the Gravitation Program Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (AlgoSoc). His chair investigates the dynamic interplay between media and organisations, and what it means for society, with a special focus on trust. Organisations are defined with a broad lens, encompassing not only companies or corporations, but also – and especially – non-governmental organisations, (semi-)public institutions, as well as social movements and other forms of organisations. His research focuses on the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence and related technologies within our communication environment play a role in this process. He is also interested in the latest developments of computational social science, and in the implementation of large-scale data collection and analysis for communication research.