AJ Alvero

Cornell University

News & Activities

2026

August

Presentation: "Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias" at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

Presentation: "A Validation Framework for Automated Transcription in Social Science" at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

Presentation: "The Misreading of Man: Readability, Intelligence, and Language Ideology" at the Junior Theorists Symposium

Co-authored paper: "Is It ‘Okay’ to Use Generative AI in Sociological Research?" presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

July

Publication: "What Does It Mean to Be Black? Experimental Evidence on the Situational Deployment of Racial Schemas" published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Link to paper

Publication: "Does Algorithmic Uncertainty Sway Human Experts? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Selective College Admissions" published in ACM FAccT Link to paper

Publication: "The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays" published in ACM Learning @ Scale Link to paper

June

Speaker: SICSS-UF and SICSS-UDC

Service: Joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology

Talk: Sociological Science Conference

May

Media: Work with Jinsook Lee and others was described in an article in Inside Higher Ed Link to article

Talk: Annual meeting of the New York State Association of Independent Schools

April

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March

Participant: Convening titled "The New Frontier of Equity Research Working Through Data Disruption and AI Acceleration" at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development

Talk: "Admissions Essays After ChatGPT: The New Economy of Style" with the NYU Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM) Link to more details about the talk

Symposium co-organizer: "Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium" Schedule and Cornell Chronicle article describing the events

February

Publication: "Racial Framing Contests: How Anti-Asian Racism and Its Resistance Enacted Racial Projects During COVID-19" published in Big Data & Society Link to paper

Preprint: "The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays" posted to arXiv Link to paper

Panelist: Hosted by Belongg and Sinceriti, "The Admissions Illusion: When Every Essay Is Perfect"

Panelist: Hosted by the Coalition for College, "AI in Admissions"

January

Publication: "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" published in Sociological Science Link to paper

Preprint: "Does Algorithmic Uncertainty Sway Human Experts? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Selective College Admissions" posted to arXiv Link to paper