Author: Edward L Platt

GenAI’s deceptively plausible outputs make it dangerously easy to overlook its limitations.

Researchers rushing to adopt AI without understanding the limitations risk committing scientific misconduct.

At CAT Lab, data visualizations and data art build intuition and encourage us to look at online communities from new perspectives.

Moderators of online communities, often volunteers, work hard to protect their communities from harassment, misinformation, trolls, and other online harms. But which policies and procedures actually work?

We’ve released a guide for collaborators, students, and anyone who wants to steward research data the CAT Lab way.

How can researchers verify the claims made by technology platforms about data access when the realities of access may depend […]

How can democratic societies host hard conversations about our conflicts in ways that keep important conversations going rather than shut […]

How can democratic societies host hard conversations about our conflicts in ways that keep important conversations going rather than shut […]

Last week, CAT Lab submitted recommendations to the US Office of Management and Budget on how to advance governance, innovation, and […]

Recently, the second FediForum brought together (virtually) a diverse group of attendees to discuss the current state and future direction […]