Research

We are the AI & Me group at the University of Chicago. We don't view AI as inherently good or bad—its impact depends on how we design and use it. Therefore, we examine and shape AI's influence by designing AI systems, evaluating their impact, and guiding their use responsibly. As our work is inherently interdisciplinary, we collaborate with researchers and practitioners in writing, education, psychology, media, and beyond.

Publications

Field
HCI NLP PL Education Psychology
Topic
Writing Reading Thinking
Type
Conference Workshop Journal Education Materials

2026

  • What Influences Readers' and Writers' Perceived Necessity of AI Disclosure?
    Jingchao Fang, Victoria Xiaohan Wen, Mina Lee
    FAccT 2026
    HCI Writing Reading
  • Combining Structured Tasks and Behavioral Logs for Measuring AI’s Impact on Cognition
    Jiayin Zhi, Mina Lee
    CHI 2026 Workshop on Tools for Thought
    HCI Thinking
  • Investigating the Effects of AI Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints: AI Access Timing and Time Availability
    Jiayin Zhi, Harsh Kumar, Mina Lee
    CHI 2026
    HCI Thinking
  • What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation
    Jiayin Zhi, Hoyt Long, Richard So, Mina Lee
    CHI 2026
    HCI Reading Website PDF
  • Writing with AI Can Reduce Gender Bias in Hiring Evaluations
    Alicia Liu, Mina Lee, Xuechunzi Bai
    CHI 2026
    HCI Psychology Writing ★ Best Paper Award
  • “Helping Me Versus Doing It for Me”: Designing for Agency in LLM-Infused Writing Tools for Science Journalism
    Sachita Nishal, Mina Lee, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
    CHI 2026
    HCI Writing

2025

2024

  • Figure for A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
    A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
    Mina Lee, Katy Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L.C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue
    CHI 2024
    HCI Writing Website PDF Code Thread Video
  • Building Machines that Learn and Think with People
    Katherine M. Collins, Ilia Sucholutsky, Umang Bhatt, Kartik Chandra, Lionel Wong, Mina Lee, Cedegao E. Zhang, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Mark Ho, Vikash Mansinghka, Adrian Weller, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griffiths
    Natural Human Behavior 2024
    Thinking PDF

2023

2022

2021

  • Swords ⚔️: A Benchmark for Lexical Substitution with Improved Data Coverage and Quality
    Mina Lee, Chris Donahue, Robin Jia, Alexander Iyabor, Percy Liang
    NAACL 2021
    NLP Writing PDF Code
  • On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
    Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, Antoine Bosselut, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shyamal Buch, Dallas Card, Rodrigo Castellon, Niladri Chatterji, Annie Chen, Kathleen Creel, Jared Quincy Davis, Dora Demszky, Chris Donahue, Moussa Doumbouya, Esin Durmus, Stefano Ermon, John Etchemendy, Kawin Ethayarajh, Li Fei-Fei, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Gale, Lauren Gillespie, Karan Goel, Noah Goodman, Shelby Grossman, Neel Guha, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Peter Henderson, John Hewitt, Daniel E. Ho, Jenny Hong, Kyle Hsu, Jing Huang, Thomas Icard, Saahil Jain, Dan Jurafsky, Pratyusha Kalluri, Siddharth Karamcheti, Geoff Keeling, Fereshte Khani, Omar Khattab, Pang Wei Kohd, Mark Krass, Ranjay Krishna, Rohith Kuditipudi, Ananya Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Mina Lee, Tony Lee, Jure Leskovec, Isabelle Levent, Xiang Lisa Li, Xuechen Li, Tengyu Ma, Ali Malik, Christopher D. Manning, Suvir Mirchandani, Eric Mitchell, Zanele Munyikwa, Suraj Nair, Avanika Narayan, Deepak Narayanan, Ben Newman, Allen Nie, Juan Carlos Niebles, Hamed Nilforoshan, Julian Nyarko, Giray Ogut, Laurel Orr, Isabel Papadimitriou, Joon Sung Park, Chris Piech, Eva Portelance, Christopher Potts, Aditi Raghunathan, Rob Reich, Hongyu Ren, Frieda Rong, Yusuf Roohani, Camilo Ruiz, Jack Ryan, Christopher Ré, Dorsa Sadigh, Shiori Sagawa, Keshav Santhanam, Andy Shih, Krishnan Srinivasan, Alex Tamkin, Rohan Taori, Armin W. Thomas, Florian Tramèr, Rose E. Wang, William Wang , Bohan Wu, Jiajun Wu, Yuhuai Wu, Sang Michael Xie, Michihiro Yasunaga, Jiaxuan You, Matei Zaharia, Michael Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xikun Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Lucia Zheng, Kaitlyn Zhou, Percy Liang
    Preprint
    NLP PDF

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