Boston University sociologist Sarah Miller discusses her new book on teen bullying, social media, and why schools need to rethink anti-bullying efforts.

A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Personality Pairing Improves Human-AI Collaboration” presents the first-ever, large-scale, randomized controlled experiment testing how AI agents  prompted to exhibit varying levels of the Big Five personality traits interacted with human personalities to shape human–AI collaboration and performance and what personality pairings proved to be the most effective. Co-authors are Sinan Aral, MIT Sloan School of Management professor and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Harang Ju, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Their results demonstrate that personality pairing can improve human–AI collaboration and performance. They also motivate future research on the complex implications of AI personalization for human–AI collaboration, teamwork, and performance.

SUTD researchers have found that older adults are most open to embracing social chatbots that feel authentic and socially engaging but not too human, offering clear lessons for designers of AI companions.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers conducted a scoping review to identify radiology studies validating commercially available medical AI products and to note reporting trends for sex, age, and ethnic demographic subgroups.