{"id":485,"date":"2025-04-16T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:30:48","slug":"biased-by-design-leveraging-ai-biases-to-enhance-critical-thinking-of-news-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/biased-by-design-leveraging-ai-biases-to-enhance-critical-thinking-of-news-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Biased by Design: Leveraging AI Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News\u00a0Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our paper&nbsp;\u201cBiased by Design: Leveraging AI Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers\u201d&nbsp;has been accepted at&nbsp;ECIS 2025!<br><br>So what\u2019s the paper about?<br><br>We usually talk about&nbsp;bias in AI&nbsp;as a problem to eliminate \u2013 especially in political contexts. But what if we flipped that idea?<br><br>In this work, we explore how&nbsp;AI\u2019s inherent political biases could actually be used&nbsp;intentionally&nbsp;\u2013 not to mislead, but to&nbsp;nudge users into deeper critical thinking. We explore this idea through the design of a propaganda detection tool, grounding it in cognitive mechanisms like confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.<br><br>The result? Thoughtful design can turn AI bias into a&nbsp;feature&nbsp;\u2013 one that prompts users to reflect, question, and expand their viewpoints.<br><br>Kudos to the best-ever team&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAACVufdEBKU5MQH3MM0_3ns8KY7sA6THSPNI\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kiliansprenkamp\/\">Kilian Sprenkamp<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAC4xjQoBUV_TTcsdzCMRba3awlGXTQ6LUOo\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/danielj0nes\/\">Daniel Gordon Jones<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAnHjfwBaWqyld_cmMm93d7vbdelLAUImNg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zoya-katashinskaya\/\">Zoya Katashinskaya<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the paper here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/390798697_Biased_by_Design_Leveraging_AI_Biases_to_Enhance_Critical_Thinking_of_News_Readers\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zavolokina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744737017812.jpg\" alt=\"text, letter\" class=\"wp-image-633\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper&nbsp;\u201cBiased by Design: Leveraging AI Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers\u201d&nbsp;has been accepted at&nbsp;ECIS 2025! So what\u2019s the paper about? We usually talk about&nbsp;bias in AI&nbsp;as a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002891,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}