Cathy Buerger

Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate

Counterspeech, i.e., direct responses against hate speech, has become an important tool to address the increasing amount of hate online while avoiding censorship. Although AI has been proposed to help scale up counterspeech efforts, this raises questions of how exactly AI could assist in this process, since counterspe…