Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello

Project focus: The Fellow will examine whether people self-select into politically aligned artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, and whether these systems, by surfacing different information to different users, are creating a new kind of echo chamber that threatens the shared factual foundation democracy depends on.

Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. At Toronto, she was a doctoral fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She writes about her research for general audiences on her Substack.