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Angèle Christin

Associate Professor of Communication, and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI

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Angèle Christin is an Associate Professor of Communication and Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. She examines how AI technologies and professional cultures shape one another. She has pursued this program through ethnographic studies of different sites transformed by digital quantification and automation: journalists in web newsrooms, judges and prosecutors in criminal courts, and influencers on social media platforms.

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Stanford Researchers: AI Reality Check Imminent

Forbes
Generative AIEconomy, MarketsHealthcareCommunications, MediaDec 23

Shana Lynch, HAI Head of Content and Associate Director of Communications, pointed out the "'era of AI evangelism is giving way to an era of AI evaluation,'" in her AI predictions piece, where she interviewed several Stanford AI experts on their insights for AI impacts in 2026.

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Moving Beyond the Term "Global South" in AI Ethics and Policy

Evani Radiya-Dixit, Angèle Christin
Ethics, Equity, InclusionInternational Affairs, International Security, International DevelopmentQuick ReadNov 19

This brief examines the limitations of the term "Global South" in AI ethics and policy, and highlights the importance of grounding such work in specific regions and power structures.

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Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms

Angèle Christin, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeffrey Hancock, Chenyan Jia, Jeanne Tsai, Chunchen Xu
Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)Communications, MediaAug 21

Social media platforms are too often understood as monoliths with clear priorities. Instead, we analyze them as complex organizations torn between starkly different justifications of their missions. Focusing on the case of Meta, we inductively analyze the company’s public materials and identify three evaluative logics that shape the platform’s decisions: an engagement logic, a public debate logic, and a wellbeing logic. There are clear trade-offs between these logics, which often result in internal conflicts between teams and departments in charge of these different priorities. We examine recent examples showing how Meta rotates between logics in its decision-making, though the goal of engagement dominates in internal negotiations. We outline how this framework can be applied to other social media platforms such as TikTok, Reddit, and X. We discuss the ramifications of our findings for the study of online harms, exclusion, and extraction.

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Walking the Walk of AI Ethics in Technology Companies
Sanna J. Ali, Angèle Christin, Andrew Smart, Riitta Katila
Quick ReadDec 07, 2023
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This brief presents one of the first empirical investigations into AI ethics on the ground in private technology companies.

Walking the Walk of AI Ethics in Technology Companies

Sanna J. Ali, Angèle Christin, Andrew Smart, Riitta Katila
Quick ReadDec 07, 2023

This brief presents one of the first empirical investigations into AI ethics on the ground in private technology companies.

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Tuning Our Algorithmic Amplifiers: Encoding Societal Values into Social Media AIs
Angèle Christin
Oct 20, 2023
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The values built into social media algorithms are highly individualized. Could we reshape our feeds to benefit society?

Tuning Our Algorithmic Amplifiers: Encoding Societal Values into Social Media AIs

Angèle Christin
Oct 20, 2023

The values built into social media algorithms are highly individualized. Could we reshape our feeds to benefit society?

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