New technologies enable a social psychology that sees individuals and society as co-constitutive elements of a complex system. Using the metaphor of a murmuration—a loosely organized, locally responsive flock—this paper proposes a “science of movement” focused on trajectories of individual activity within evolving social interactions and language. We illustrate human murmuration by reviewing research on group polarization, showing how conversational joint action shapes opinion and identity. Language evolves in this process, becoming a tool for differentiation through strategic bias articulation.
Polarization is understood as compression in the social information system—the medium of human murmuration. We explore how compression, bias and identity appear in large language models, reflecting the dynamic process of human thinking and activity. The paper concludes with a manifesto for social psychology, outlining directions for research that can leverage emerging methods to realize the discipline’s potential in the age of complex systems and computational tools.
We will use AI to build features that remove technical barriers to allow the humans at the core of Wikipedia to spend their valuable time on what they want to accomplish, and not on how to technically achieve it. Our investments will be focused on specific areas where generative AI excels, all in the service of creating unique opportunities that will boost Wikipedia’s volunteers:
Supporting Wikipedia’s moderators and patrollers with AI-assisted workflows that automate tedious tasks in support of knowledge integrity;
Giving Wikipedia’s editors time back by improving the discoverability of information on Wikipedia to leave more time for human deliberation, judgment, and consensus building;
Helping editors share local perspectives or context by automating the translation and adaptation of common topics;
Scaling the onboarding of new Wikipedia volunteers with guided mentorship.
This is a really powerful pattern and needs to be incorporated in the White Hat AI proposal. The flag here will be that the attacks have to be emotionally manipulative or they don’t work.
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