Myra Cheng
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Sycophantic AI makes people feel more justified and less willing to repair conflicts, yet users trust and prefer it more.
2025/10/01 by Myra Cheng, Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee +10 · 88 voices · 7 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · #Mental Health Research Topics #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
2025/05/20 by Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Cheng, Myra +10 · 20 voices · 34 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #cs.CL #cs.AI #cs.CY
- Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models
2021/12/08 by Laura Weidinger, John Mellor, John W. Mellor +45 · 2 voices · 102 citations
Computer Science · #cs.CL #cs.AI #cs.CY
- CoMPosT: Characterizing and Evaluating Caricature in LLM Simulations
2023/10/17 by Myra Cheng, Cheng, Myra, Tiziano Piccardi +3 · 2 voices · 18 citations
Social Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Social Media and Politics
- The Surveillance AI Pipeline
2023/09/26 by Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Kalluri, Pratyusha Ria +9 · 8 voices · 1 citation
#cs.CV #cs.CY
- A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
2025/02/14 by Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede +2 · 2 voices · 5 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · #AI in Service Interactions #Social Robot Interaction and HRI #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- AnthroScore: A Computational Linguistic Measure of Anthropomorphism
2024/02/03 by Myra Cheng, Cheng, Myra, Kristina Gligorić +5 · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Language and cultural evolution
- Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs
2026/03/17 by Jared Moore, Ashish Mehta, William Agnew +11 · 6 voices · 7 citations
#cs.CL #cs.AI
- From tools to thieves: Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors
2025/01/29 by Myra Cheng, Angela Y. Lee, Cheng, Myra +9 · 2 voices · 5 citations
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #cs.AI #cs.CL #cs.CY #cs.HC
- NLP Systems That Can't Tell Use from Mention Censor Counterspeech, but Teaching the Distinction Helps
2024/04/02 by Kristina Gligorić, Myra Cheng, Gligoric, Kristina +7 · 4 citations
Computer Science · #Topic Modeling #Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Human Preference-Based Learning for High-dimensional Optimization of\n Exoskeleton Walking Gaits
2020/03/13 by Maegan Tucker, Tucker, Maegan, Myra Cheng +11 · 2 citations
Engineering · Health Professions · Medicine · #Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics #Robotics (cs.RO) #Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks
2026/05/21 by Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4 · 4 voices
#cs.CY #cs.HC
- AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
2025/03/04 by Alexandra Olteanu, Olteanu, Alexandra, Solon Barocas +9 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #cs.CY
- Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
2025/02/19 by Myra Cheng, Cheng, Myra, Su Lin Blodgett +7 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · #AI in Service Interactions #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Educational Games and Gamification #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Topic Modeling
- HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs
2025/02/18 by Myra Cheng, Cheng, Myra, Shucong Yu +3 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling
- Sycophantic AI makes human interaction feel more effortful and less satisfying over time
2026/05/08 by Lujain Ibrahim, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Myra Cheng +5 · 4 voices
#cs.HC #cs.AI #cs.CY
- Attention to Non-Adopters
2025/10/10 by Kaitlyn Zhou, Zhou, Kaitlyn, Kristina Gligorić +17 · 1 voice · 1 citation
#cs.CY #cs.CL #cs.HC #cs.LG