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Assistant Professor, Yale SOM
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Today, we’re releasing a dataset of >2k LLM conversations with real voters about the 2026 Midterms. We wanted to know how the ~millions of American who use AI models to talk about elections actually prompt them. Our hope is to use this data to build better evals for LLMs, to prepare for a world where most voters use AI to think through election decisions.

We observe that:
- People mostly want basic information
- Multi-turn chats follow predictable patterns
- Models differ widely in whether they’ll recommend candidates
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Why are people so inconsistent in their moral behaviors? And in their moral judgments of others? When and why do we excuse others' moral inconsistency?

Our review on "Moral Inconsistency" weaves together research on moral licensing, dishonesty, prejudice, hypocrisy, and more.
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Why do people condone misinformation they don’t believe?

Our 🚨new paper🚨 explores three psychological factors that encourage people to excuse misinformation:
-partisanship
-imagination
-repetition

We link each factor to a key characteristic of "post-truth” society.