All presentations take place on September 4, 2024 in The Forum at the The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

830–9AM: Breakfast

9–1030AM: Session 1: Tools

• Paper 1A: Hanna Wallach – Evaluating LLM-Based Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
• Paper 1B: Jonathan Colner – What a DRAG! Data from Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Paper 1C: Christopher Barrie – Prompt Stability Scoring for Text Annotation with Large Language Models
• Discussant 1A: Elliott Ash
• Discussant 1B: Abigail Z. Jacobs

1030–1045AM: Break

1045–1215PM: Session 2: Experiments

• Paper 2A: Ethan Busby AI-Powered Persuasion: An LLM-enabled Comparison of Persuasive Strategies
• Paper 2B: Yamil Velez – Retrieval-Augmented Representation: Assessing the Second Face of Power
• Paper 2C: Jason Anastasopoulos –Are Aisha and Darnell Better Civil Servants Than Emily and Greg? Evaluating Racial and Gender Bias in Generative AI-Based Civil Servant Assessments
• Discussant 2A: Christopher Barrie
• Discussant 2B: Ju Yeon Park

1215–115PM: Lunch

115–245PM: Session 3: Accountability

• Paper 3A: Yuehong Cassandra Tai – The Digitally Accountable Public Representation Database: Measuring Online Communication by Federal, State, and Local Officials
• Paper 3B: Ju Yeon Park – From Reddit to Congressional Hearings: A Study of Representation Using an Argument Extraction Method
• Paper 3C: Aseem Mahajan – Fifty Shades of Greenwashing: The Political Economy of Climate Change Advertising on Social Media
• Discussant 3A: Brandon Stewart
• Discussant 3B: Nick Beauchamp

245–315PM: Break

315–445PM: Session 4: Authorities and Authoritarianism

• Paper 4A: Xu Xu – The Long Shadow of Chinese Government Censorship
• Paper 4B: Humeyra Biricik – Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding
• Paper 4C: Ashrakat Elshehawy The Police as Gatekeepers of Information
• Discussant 4A: P Aronow
• Discussant 4B: Naoki Egami