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Kevin Feng
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PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me
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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
September 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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📢 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.

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Screenshot of a paper on a webpage, with a figure showing 5 levels of autonomy for AI agents and the tradeoff between user involvement and agent autonomy as the levels increase.
August 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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...
Levels of Autonomy for AI Agents
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July 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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!
April 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance!

#CHI2025
April 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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🤖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
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The first page of an academic paper with a figure depicting the use of Canvil, a Figma widget for designerly adaptation of LLMs, along with the names of the 6 authors.
April 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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📢 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 poster for STAIG@CHI'25. The title of the poster is "Keynote: Algorithmic Harm And Safety Are Sociotechnical, But Are Our Interventions?" April 27, 2025 | PACIFICO Yokohama & Online. 16:00-16:45 Japan Standard Time. The poster also includes a headshot of Roel Dobbe and his bio. "Roel Dobbe is an Assistant Professor in Technology, Policy & Management at Delft University of Technology focusing on Sociotechnical AI Systems. He received a MSc in Systems & Control from Delft (2010) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley (2018), where he received the Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award. He was an inaugural postdoc at the AI Now Institute and New York University. His research addresses the integration and implications of algorithmic technologies in societal infrastructure and democratic institutions, focusing on issues related to safety, sustainability and justice. His projects are situated in various domains, including energy systems, public administration, and healthcare. Roel’s system-theoretic lens enables addressing the sociotechnical and political nature of algorithmic and artificial intelligence systems across analysis, engineering design and governance, with an aim to empower domain experts and affected communities. His results have informed various policy initiatives, including environmental assessments in the European AI Act as well as the development of the algorithm watchdog in The Netherlands."
April 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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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
poster advertising 5 panelists from a diverse set of institutions the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance at CHI 2025
April 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Looking for feed creators out there to speak with us about your experience!
kjfeng.me Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · Apr 15
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....
April 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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....
April 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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
April 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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

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March 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The New Yorker says Wikipedia is a beacon of hope, with quotes from me and @mako.cc www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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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🌟
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Screenshot of the first page of the paper SPICA: Retrieving Scenarios for Pluralistic In-Context Alignment
March 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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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)
March 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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⏰😱 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.
March 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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rockpang.bsky.social
🚨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
kjfeng.me Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · Dec 23
📢📢 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
A poster advertising the first workshop on sociotechnical AI governance with a description of the workshop's core themes and faces of the organizers.
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Huge congrats to @axz.bsky.social on her 2025 Sloan Fellowship!! 🎊
February 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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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
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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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
February 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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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 : )
ai2.bsky.social Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Jan 21
Can AI really help with literature reviews? 🧐
Meet Ai2 ScholarQA, an experimental solution that allows you to ask questions that require multiple scientific papers to answer. It gives more in-depth and contextual answers with table comparisons and expandable sections 💡
Try it now: scholarqa.allen.ai
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January 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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.
Normative Philosophy of Computing - January
Happy New Year!
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January 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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🤔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. 🧵
A screenshot of the first page of an academic figure with a list of authors and a high-level schematic figure describing Cocoa, an interactive system for co-planning and co-execution with AI agents.
January 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM