Hello everyone,
We are excited to host our sixth Monthly Memeber Conversation. This month's speaker will be Alicia Cheng. Alicia is a first-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She obtained her Master's degree in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction from Rice University. She's generally interested in human-AI interactions and how AI systems should be designed for people.
Talk Time: Friday, June 26, 1:00 PM (ET)
Talk Title: An Agent-Based Model of GenAI in Creative Writing: Novelty Gains and Diversity Declines
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is being rapidly adopted in education. Its effects on creativity unfold at both individual and collective levels. We develop an agent-based model that represents students' creative outputs in a two-dimensional idea space to examine how GenAI assistance in creative writing shapes individual creativity and classroom-level idea diversity. Simulations show that GenAI increases individual creativity, with disproportionately larger gains for less creative students, while reducing collective diversity through idea homogenization. Critically, the model reveals a more nuanced, non-linear pattern of collective diversity than empirical accounts of homogenization alone: collective diversity can increase at low-to-moderate adoption rates before reaching a tipping point and declining at high adoption rates. These findings highlight the need to evaluate GenAI in education using both individual performance metrics and collective system outcomes.
This is meant to be an informal space to connect and have real conversations with like-minded folks interested in all things HART.
If you're interested, please email me at alsaid@umich.edu.
Hope to see many of you there.
- Areen
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Areen Alsaid
Assistant Professor
Dearborn MI
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