Haiwen Li
PhD Student at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
As AI increasingly reshapes digital information environments and how we engage with information, I study how to design these systems to better inform people.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Social and Engineering Systems
2022-present
University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. in Statistics (Summa Cum Laude)
2018-2022
Recent Publications
Google Scholar — profile with recent publications
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AI Fact-Checking in the Wild: A Field Evaluation of LLM-Written Community Notes on X
Haiwen Li, Michiel A. Bakker
arXiv preprint, 2026
Paper · Project
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The Rise of AI Search: Implications for Information Markets and Human Judgement at Scale
Sinan Aral, Haiwen Li, Rui Zuo
arXiv preprint, 2026
Paper
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Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs
Haiwen Li, Soham De, Manon Revel, Andreas Haupt, Brad Miller, Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter, Martin Saveski, Michiel A. Bakker
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2025
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Trusting GenAI: A Large Scale Generative Search Experiment
Haiwen Li, Sinan Aral
Accepted at Nature Human Behavior
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Nudge Users to Catch Generative AI Errors
Renée Gosline, Yunhao Zhang, Haiwen Li, Accenture Research
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2024
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