As AI evolves, I will continue to update the reading list. If you have suggestions, such as key topics, papers, or materials I might have overlooked, I welcome your input. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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In the list, I try to cover a range of topics and include academic papers, industry white papers, policy documents, and even social media posts. I developed this course in the spring and plan to offer it in future semesters.
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This semester, I have been teaching an AI and Society class. As the name suggests, the goal is to explore the transformative impact of AI, particularly LLMs and AI agents, on society. This is a seminar class, and here is the reading list: yangkclab.github.io/ai-and-socie...
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New blog post:
www.kaichengyang.me/blog/sharing...
Last day to submit your work to #CySoc2026 !
We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information!
More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...
Time: Sat, March 21, 10am-11am ET
Location: please email me for Zoom link
More information can be found at: research-with-ai-agents-workshop.github.io
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I'm organizing a Research with AI Agents Workshop Series, inviting colleagues and friends who have been actively exploring the application of AI agents to share how they're using them in their work and research. The first talk will feature Dr. Yanbo Zhang. See abstract and bio below.
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ICYMI.
Website: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
Submission site: easychair.org/conferences?...
If your code skills require user input at some point, explicitly require it by using the "AskUserQuestions" tools in skills.md, which would trigger the confirmation dialog shown below every time.
Then you can review the scored list in a Streamlit app and assign your own final ranking. In my case, it scored 700+ papers in under 3 minutes with 20 workers using gpt-4.1-mini (requires an OpenAI API key). Results are pretty good.
Link: github.com/yang3kc/conf...
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If you are reviewing for IC2S2 and it gives you a headache from reading all 700+ paper titles/abstracts while bidding, I just built a tool for it. It uses an LLM to score how relevant each paper is to your research interests (you can define a list of keywords).
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ICYMI
๐ฃCFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc)
We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications.
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Submission: March 22nd, 2026
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Notification: April 8th, 2026
๐ Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
We are looking forward to your amazing submissions to the CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2026!
Learn more here: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
Note: the previously circulated submission deadline has been shifted.
CySoc 2026 is back! Check out the CfP below.
We are also looking for PC members. Pin me if you are interested in joining!
This story via @theconversation.com weaves together research done with @yang3kc.bsky.social @baottruong.bsky.social and several others: ๐งช Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs โ threatening democracy
theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai...
Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy.
#SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch ๐งช
Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
๐จ New working paper ๐จ
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007โ2024).
Short answer: Not reliablyโunless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
๐ Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM
and based in a low- or middle-income country?
๐ก Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026!
๐ข Call icwsm.org/2026/submit....
๐ Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...
๐๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐๐ & ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ will give their first-ever ๐ท๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฒ at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSciโs 20th anniversary.
Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
Congrats!! Though sad to see you leave the US.
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
๐ Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
๐ Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
๐ฝ Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details!
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Now live: โDeclining information quality under new platform governanceโ by Burak รzturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathรฉ, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...
Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...
Great report on the worldwide news landscape 2025. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication ๐ญ๐ . Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt
Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25
Attending #ICA this week. Letโs catch up ๐