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  1. Should Conversational AI Have a Duty to Act in Your Best Interest?

    Article • July 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Erickson

  2. The Fake Friend Dilemma: Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Jacob Erickson

  3. Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble

    Article • August 2025, Center for Open Science

    Jacob Erickson

  4. Fake Friends and Sponsored Ads: The Risks of Advertising in Conversational Search

    Article • August 2025, Center for Open Science

    Jacob Erickson

  5. Why Ads in Conversational AI Could Threaten User Safety

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Erickson

  6. Moderation Backlash: Hate Speech Policy on an Alt-Tech Site

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Erickson

  7. How the Facebook Reactions Feature Changed Emotions in Congress Members’ Posts

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jacob Erickson

  8. Rethinking the Filter Bubble: How Online Filters Might Protect People

    Article • Big Data & Society, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Jacob Erickson

  9. Can Online Political Groups Talk to Each Other? A Look at "Echo Chambers" on Reddit

    Article • Social Media + Society, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Jacob Erickson

  10. Making Recommender Systems Fairer for Individual Users

    Article • November 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Jacob Erickson

  11. What You Don’t Expect When Expecting: A Privacy Investigation of Period-Tracking Apps

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Jacob Erickson