Research in human-centered AI, human–AI decision-making, natural language processing, and computational social science. For the complete and most current record, see my Google Scholar profile.
William J. Brady, Chen-Wei Yu, Nicholas Ornstein, Bolun Sun, Joshua Conrad Jackson
Current Opinion in Psychology (published online September 9, 2026)
This review examines how engagement-based algorithms and generative AI shape the information available for social learning. It connects these changes in information selection to conformity and prestige biases and discusses ways to support cultural transmission in digital environments.
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026 Main, Oral Presentation)
This paper introduces CAPC-CG, the Chinese Adaptive Policy Communication (Central Government) Corpus, a large-scale expert-directed LLM-annotated corpus for studying adaptive policy communication in China. Accepted as an oral presentation at ACL Main 2026.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
This paper investigates when language models can determine they have gathered sufficient information to answer a question, demonstrating their ability to adaptively stop reading.
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