Outputs (19)

Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leesakul, N., Clos, J., & Hyde, R. (2024, September). Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Does the law stifle technology adoption? At the surface, it may appear to be that there is a regulatory gap and, therefore, such uncertainty can hinder the development and deployment of collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems (Cobots). C... Read More about Not the Law's First Rodeo: Towards regulating trustworthy collaborative industrial embodied autonomous systems.

Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeghouani, O., Ali, Z., Simson Van Dijkhuizen, W., Wei Hong, J., & Clos, J. (2024, September). Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas, USA

Educators face ever-growing time constraints, leading to poor work-life balance and a negative impact on work quality. Through their language generation capabilities, large language models offer an interesting avenue to ease this academic workload, a... Read More about Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings.

A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., & Clos, J. (2024, September). A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas

The Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub is a collabora-tive platform that aims to guide the development of autonomous systems that are safe, reliable, and ultimately trusted by society. Its mission is to address the challenges surrounding the gr... Read More about A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.

LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clos, J., McClaughlin, E., Barnard, P., Tom, T., & Yajaman, S. (2024, September). LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), Austin, Texas, USA

Online misinformation is an ever-growing challenge that can have a negative impact on individuals, societies, and democracies. We report on LOOM, a project that aims to build and validate a browser-based tool to detect and respond to misinformation i... Read More about LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation.

Investigating the Impact of Generative AI on Students and Educators: Evidence and Insights from the Literature (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clos, J., & Chen, Y. Y. (2024, September). Investigating the Impact of Generative AI on Students and Educators: Evidence and Insights from the Literature. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), Austin, Texas

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the main concerns of knowledge workers due to its ability to mimic realistic human reasoning and creativity. However, this integration raises critical concerns about trust and ethics, which ar... Read More about Investigating the Impact of Generative AI on Students and Educators: Evidence and Insights from the Literature.

“The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter (2024)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Clos, J., Nichele, E., & Fischer, J. E. (2024). “The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28, 875–894. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01811-x

ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot system by OpenAI, gained significant attention and adoption in 2022 and 2023. By generating human-like conversations, it attracted over 100 million monthly users; however, there are concerns about the social impact of... Read More about “The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter.

Perceptions of The Agency and Responsibility of The NHS Covid-19 App on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (in press). Perceptions of The Agency and Responsibility of The NHS Covid-19 App on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, Article e50388. https://doi.org/10.2196/50388

Background:

Since September 2020, the National Health Service (NHS) COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. Since its launch, this app has been a part of the discussion regarding the pe... Read More about Perceptions of The Agency and Responsibility of The NHS Covid-19 App on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis.

“ChatGPT says no”: agency, trust, and blame in Twitter discourses after the launch of ChatGPT (2024)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (2025). “ChatGPT says no”: agency, trust, and blame in Twitter discourses after the launch of ChatGPT. AI and Ethics, 5, 653-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00414-1

ChatGPT, a chatbot using the GPT-n series large language model, has surged in popularity by providing conversation, assistance, and entertainment. This has raised questions about its agency and resulting implications on trust and blame, particularly... Read More about “ChatGPT says no”: agency, trust, and blame in Twitter discourses after the launch of ChatGPT.

“The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). “The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic. SN Social Sciences, 3(9), Article 146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00740-5

In July 2021, the UK recorded an increase in self-isolation notifications to the users of the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app. The term pingdemic was coined and used widely in the media to refer to this period of increased notifications. Whilst exis... Read More about “The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic.

“The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter (2023)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). “The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter. PLoS ONE, 18(7), Article e0288662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288662

In August 2020, the UK government and regulation body Ofqual replaced school examinations with automatically computed A Level grades in England and Wales. This algorithm factored in school attainment in each subject over the previous three years. Gov... Read More about “The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter.