David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social

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Prof @cornell - I'm more active on BlueSky at @dgrand.bsky.social

Ithaca, NY DaveRand.org Joined June 2012

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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand Dec 4, 2025

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand 3d

Thrilled to be part of a winning @Cornell team for a Laude $10 million grant, for our proposal on restoring trust in civic discourse. Really lookin forward to doing this work!

Laude Institute @LaudeInstitute 3d

What could the future look like if AI moves all of humanity forward?

Last year, we asked this of research teams across the US and Canada and invited them to shoot for the moon. We assembled a program committee of research luminaries, rising stars, and interdisciplinary experts to select eight seed grantees across four categories: Workforce Reskilling, Civic Discourse, Advancing Healthcare, and Accelerating Science.

Each team spent six months developing proposals for a multi-year, $10 million lab. Last week, they made their pitches at Demo Day in San Francisco. And today, we're announcing the four winners of Moonshots // ONE.

Researchers have power — to change how we work, commune, live, and discover. Especially when done in the open, their work is the fuel for human progress.

Join us in congratulating the first four Laude Moonshot Labs!

Read the announcement: laude.org/updates/moonsh…

Meet the winners👇

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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand Nov 2

We are hiring in Cornell Information Science! Job ads for at both our Ithaca and NYC campuses, with focus areas as follows:

(1) Ithaca: Computing and AI in education and learning, including in global environments beyond the United States. JOB AD: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33075

(2) NYC: Computing and AI in health and medicine; human and technical dimensions of trust, safety, and security; and the design, application, and governance of technology in urban environments. JOB AD: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33106

Application due on Dec 1. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand Oct 22

Happy that the Editorial Expression of Concern about our Costello et al 2024 Science paper on debunking conspiracies using AI is resolved/gone! We've issued an erratum and an update where many numbers changed a tiny bit, and no substantive conclusions changed at all science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

www.science.org Erratum for the Research Article “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI” On 13 September 2024, Science published the Research Article “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI” by T. H. Costello et al. After publication, the authors became aware of...

David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand Sep 29

Honored to give a keynote at Stanford's Trust & Safety Research Conference 2026 (Fri 8:45-9:30am). If you're going to be at the conference and want to connect, send me a message! drive.google.com/file/d/12Q_MtA…

drive.google.com TSRC Agenda