Dr. Tori Peña discussed a recent grant submission with Stony Brook University’s BIAS-NRT group. This proprosal reflected on whether the use of large-language models (LLMs) might homogenize human cognition. She reviewed some recent work reporting that people report more similar creative outputs (e.g., short stories, essays) after augmenting their writing with an LLM (i.e., ChatGPT). She discussed the potential implications of LLM-use on human cognition and social connection.

Dr. Tori Peña discussed some of her work on how people shape each other’s memories and imagination of the future of the United States. She reviewed work she did examining chat-based collaboration (Greeley et al., 2022). She also discussed her work experimentally testing whether people can imagine a more positive future for the future of the United States (Peña & Rajaram, in press).