If you're attending ACM CAIS 2026 in San Jose, be sure to check out our new work led by Tanjal Shukla (@onaheater.bsky.social) on AI agents that can adapt their autonomy based on user interaction! Both Tanjal and @leijiew.bsky.social are attending, so pls stop by our poster and ask for a demo!

I've defended! 🎉 Huge thank you to my advisors Amy and David, my all-star committee (Amy, David, Dan, Emily, and Mako), and the @hcde.uw.edu @uwcse.bsky.social @uwdub.bsky.social communities for a super rewarding PhD experience!!

🚨The 2025 AI Agent Index is out! 🚨 Amidst recent buzz over 🦀 and NIST's new agent initiative, we find: - Selective reporting – esp. on safety - Almost all agents backend just 3 model families - Many agents don’t ID themselves as bots online - Big US/China gaps - And more…

I'll be giving a talk at the #NeurIPS2025 RegML workshop Dec. 7th! I'll also be at the post-AGI workshop on the 3rd and will generally hang around the conference in between. Say hi if you're also around! 👋

I'll be at #neurips2025 briefly for the workshop weekend, specifically the Algorithmic Collective Action workshop and Regulatable ML workshop (where @kjfeng.me was selected to give an oral for his workshop paper on regulating agent UIs!). LMK if you're around!

earlier this summer I published my first paper of my phd! ✨ a qualitative study on how creative writers are using AI in their writing and what their strategies were in order to align with their personal writing values

📢 New paper, published by @knightcolumbia.org We often talk about AI agents augmenting vs. automating work, but how exactly can different configurations of human-agent interaction look like? We introduce a 5-level framework for AI agent autonomy to unpack this. 🧵👇

In an essay for our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @kjfeng.me, @axz.bsky.social (both of @socialfutureslab.bsky.social), & David W. McDonald outline a framework for levels of #AI agent autonomy that can be used to support the responsible deployment of AI agents. knightcolumbia.org/content/leve...

Excited to kick off the first workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at #chi2025 (STAIG@CHI'25) with a morning poster session in a full house! Looking forward to more posters, discussions, and our keynote in the afternoon. Follow our schedule at chi-staig.github.io!

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025

🤖LLMs are being integrated everywhere, but how do we ensure they're delivering meaningful user experiences? In our #chi2025 paper, we empower designers to think about this via 🎨designerly adaptation🎨 of LLMs and built a Figma widget to help! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2401.09051 🧵👇

📢 The First Workshop on Sociotechnical #AI Governance at #CHI2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! 🤩 We are super excited to invite Roel Dobbe from TU Delft for our keynote "Algorithmic Harm and Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" Join us in Yokohama or online!!

The First Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI 2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! We’re super excited to hold a panel with some amazing speakers to discuss why a sociotechnical approach to AI governance is so important. Learn more + see our full schedule: chi-staig.github.io

Looking for feed creators out there to speak with us about your experience!

Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....

Panel 2: AI Agents’ Democratic and Economic Impacts starts at around 11:10am ET, right after our short break. Panelists: @kjfeng.me, @peterhenderson.bsky.social, @sethlazar.org, and Daniel Susskind. Moderator: Beba Cibralic. #AIDemocraticFreedoms

Can LLM prompting help social media users create and iterate on their content filters more easily? In our #CHI2025 paper, we compared in an experiment three authoring strategies: 🤖 Prompting LLM 🔎 Labeling examples for ML classifiers 📐 Authoring keyword rules (🧵1/N)

The New Yorker says Wikipedia is a beacon of hope, with quotes from me and @mako.cc www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In-context learning can be an effective way to conduct value alignment of LLMs through examples, but when there are multiple pluralistic groups, are the best examples for one group also the ones for another? We explore this in our paper 🌟SPICA🌟 (🧵1/9)

Panel 2: AI Agents’ Democratic and Economic Impacts. 11:10am ET, 4/10. Panelists: @kjfeng.me (University of Washington), @peterhenderson.bsky.social (Princeton), @sethlazar.org (@knightcolumbia.org), & Daniel Susskind (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Moderator: Beba Cibralic (RAND)

I'm honored and humbled to receive the #IBM PhD fellowship! Thank you to my advisor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, all my friends, mentors and collaborators at and outside #UW for the support and inspiration that push me to grow!! Congrats @shangbinfeng.bsky.social for the fellowship too!! #UWAllen

Are any of you content creators on YouTube or can share this with any creators on YouTube? We're looking to test out a system we've built to enable creators to make custom filters for their comments, no technical skills needed! We offer $20 for a 1 hour remote session where you can try out the tool.

⏰😱 less than 3 days till the deadline for STAIG @ CHI'25: Sociotechnical AI Governance!! Need inspiration for topics and/or framing? Check out the 4 governance challenges and sample topics on our website 👉 chi-staig.github.io.

🚨We’ve extended the STAIG #CHI2025 paper deadline to **March 3**🚨We are accepting a wide range of submission!! Come join us in Japan to discuss how you envision the future of #AIGovernance!! #AI #HCI #GenAI See our website: chi-staig.github.io

Huge congrats to @axz.bsky.social on her 2025 Sloan Fellowship!! 🎊

I am delighted to share this new paper on AI collaboration in Chinese news organisations, led by @qingxiaohci.bsky.social‬, which has just been accepted at #CHI25. https://buff.ly/4gCc7hb

Need some more time to put together a submission for our workshop? Fear not! We've extended our deadline by two weeks to **March 3rd**! Submit your work to join a budding community for sociotechnical AI governance at CHI. Learn more: chi-staig.github.io

Joint work with Amanpreet Singh @arnaik19.bsky.social @sergeyf.bsky.social @paopow.bsky.social @kylelo.bsky.social @dougdowney.bsky.social Dan Weld and more. Please check it out and give us feedback : )

January update from the normative philosophy of computing newsletter: new CFPs, papers, workshops, and resources for philosophers working on normative questions raised by AI and computing.

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, 4/10-11, at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. We're hosting a symposium w/ @sethlazar.org exploring the risks advanced #AI systems pose to democratic freedoms and interventions to mitigate them. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

Excited to continue the conversation on AI governance at the Sociotechnical AI Governance workshop at #chi2025! Come discuss research and practice spanning purely social to purely technical (+ everything in between) approaches to making AI beneficial for and representative of society. ➡️

🚨🚨 Excited to share that we're organizing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI'25 (STAIG@CHI'25)!! Join us if you're interested in exploring actionable strategies for AI governance through a sociotechnical lens! #HCI #CHI2025 #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #AI #techpolicy

This will be *quite* the fun workshop. We're casting a wide net- I encourage you to submit, and join us in Tokyo or online! Happy to answer Qs!

📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

📣 📣 Interested in an internship on human-centred AI, human agency, AI evaluation & the impacts of AI systems? Our team/FATE MLT (Su Lin Blodgett, @qveraliao.bsky.social & I) is looking for a few summer interns 🎉 Apply by Jan 10 for full consideration: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics. See results in comments! 🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm. Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts! We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature! arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

What is $131,742? Answer: this is how much it costs me to fund a PhD student per year for a full RAship in CS at UW (including 100% during the summer). PhD funding can be a confusing topic at US universities. Want to learn more? Take a look at our lab handbook: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Interested in HCI? Go follow some fantastic folks from UW @uofwa.bsky.social—home to one of the largest HCI communities in the world! go.bsky.app/43Txz76

Are you a researcher in CS or a CS-adjacent field who uses planning docs to organize your research? Want to try out our new AI agent-powered system for working with research planning docs in a paid user study? Details and sign up here! forms.gle/TGzKFaFYs6x7...

If you're attending #CSCW2024, check out this work which will be presented at noon on Monday by @ruotongw.bsky.social ! Our paper proposes a design concept 🌉meeting bridges🌉, or information artifacts that facilitate post-meeting understanding and collaboration. Arxiv link: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03259

Kevin @kjfeng.bsky.social and Lawrence presenting their work! #chi2024

Concerned about what’s real vs fake, esp after seeing Sora videos? In a new blog post, I (w/ Jina Yoon & @axz.bsky.social) summarize our recent research with the C2PA on how media provenance standards impact credibility perceptions in social media feeds: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/02/21/p...

Meta is rolling out labels for genAI media! See our recent paper studying the design and impact of provenance indicators - we found they help ppl spot deceptive media w/ some caveats. w/ @kjfeng.bsky.social and the C2PA UX working group: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... about.fb.com/news/2024/02...

Hi! I (+ @axz.bsky.social and a couple others) am conducting a study on new tools for content curation in social media feeds, esp Bluesky! We’d love to have you participate. It’ll take around 45 minutes and you’ll get a $20 USD gift card. More details + sign up here: forms.gle/yrAzteTqFqMP....

I participated in an interview with a group of fantastic UW scholars of social media for UW News! 🤩 We talk about problems with large, centralized social media and whether the fragmentation we're seeing of today's social media landscape has been beneficial: www.washington.edu/news/2023/10...

And @kjfeng.bsky.social gave a talk on his collaboration with the C2PA UX task force investigating how end users interpret and react to media provenance indicators embedded in social media, particularly on trust and accuracy. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Great job everyone!

Next @cqz.bsky.social gave a talk on Wed on targeted interventions to reduce uncertainty in judgments. Paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... He also discussed how it fits into his broader research trajectory and agenda, as he's headed onto the job market this year!