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

  • 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
  • The Rise of AI Search: Implications for Information Markets and Human Judgement at Scale Sinan Aral, Haiwen Li, Rui Zuo
    arXiv preprint, 2026
    Paper
  • 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
    Paper
  • Trusting GenAI: A Large Scale Generative Search Experiment Haiwen Li, Sinan Aral
    Accepted at Nature Human Behavior
  • Nudge Users to Catch Generative AI Errors Renée Gosline, Yunhao Zhang, Haiwen Li, Accenture Research
    MIT Sloan Management Review, 2024
    Paper

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