As ChatGPT and other LLMs become better and better at *answering questions,* the important complementary human skill becomes: Asking questions. As I tell my students... Asking really good questions is an art form that is becoming even more important in the Age of AI.

I've been using a GPT4 paper assistant that reads the daily ArXiv feed and makes personalized recommendations in Slack. It's worked pretty well for me (today's paper demo tatsu-lab.github.io/gpt_paper_assi…). If this sounds helpful, you can set up your own bot here github.com/tatsu-lab/gpt_….

Is Generative AI a Bubble? Let me make the contrarian case that we are living in the middle of a generative AI bubble. First, I want to clarify that I am not an AI skeptic or fatalist. I don’t believe AI will take over the world and must be stopped. On the contrary, I am a long

New paper with Linda Zhao UChicago Sociology now out at Demography Journal. We show general patterns of assimilation in terms of networks and identities at the 3rd generation in England, Germany and the Netherlands, with substantial heterogeneity by ethnic origins. 👇

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Thank you Bogdan Vasilescu , James Herbsleb , Patrick Park , Thomas Zimmermann and James Evans , and congratulations to Hongbo Fang 😀

Congratulations to Professor Nicolas Christin (Nicolas Christin), CyLab faculty member and Co-Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Initiative, on being named the new department head at CMU's CMU Software and Societal Systems Department! Learn more: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2024/07/0…

Join Prof. Bogdan Vasilescu's Q&A on Oct 1: Explore our Societal Computing PhD program at tech & social sciences crossroads. Register: bit.ly/3zCSKoF #PhDLife #TechForSociety #GradSchool #GradSchoolAdvice #ComputerScience #SocietalComputing

May the strength of long ties be with you! Happy #Halloween2024 to Joshua Blumenstock Michael Macy Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with bernice pescosolido. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. doi.org/10.1177/000312…

Join the Societal Computing PhD program in CMU Software and Societal Systems Department, CMU School of Computer Science. I am recruiting curious PhD students using #networks and #ComputationalSocialScience with burning questions about our social world, embedded in socio-technical systems. sc.cs.cmu.edu

Here's a cool, simple technique I learned from Joey @Cherdarchuk: in a choropleth map, your legend can double as a histogram - showing both the colour coding ánd the data distribution. #maps #dataviz

These talented young musicians teamed up to bring the joy of music to young children in the community. Please support their cause. 6pm (CT) tonight at Nichols Hall, Evanston. Please join us in person or through the live stream. youtube.com/live/MxXwBr__9…

"We thank the reviewers for their suggestions and believe they have substantially improved the paper."

During my PhD, my advisor told me to not use the library’s computer to find the book I wanted, because the act of browsing row after row in the stacks to find it was how original connections were made.

New research alert 🚨 from my group, “Blockchain Address Poisoning” (Tsuchiya et al.), to appear at USENIX Security 2025 (arxiv.org/abs/2501.16681)! As a follow-up, we also developed a real-time detection system: cryptotrade.cylab.cmu.edu/poisoning/ and Toxin Tagger (T-T) (1/7)

BLS officially cut off my access to restricted geocoded data. This will be detrimental to my career and will prevent new discoveries from being made. Faculty and grad students seem to be primary targets now. It’s a sad day for research and public policy in America. BLS-Labor Statistics

Want to use your data science skills for good? The government of Togo, with support from my team, is recruiting a top-tier data scientist to design more effective anti-poverty programs. Learn more and apply if you're up for the challenge! cega.berkeley.edu/offer/data-sci…

Also in the north side today. Ald. Jessie Fuentes was briefly handcuffed by federal agents after demanding a judicial warrant for a man they had arrested. Video from her team.

📢 Join us Oct 28, 2025 @ 4PM (EST) via Zoom for the next IDeaS Fall Seminar! 🎙️ Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor at the Annenberg School, will discuss “The Present and Future of U.S. Journalism.” 🔗 Register: cmu.edu/ideas-social-c… #CMU #IDeaS #MediaPolicy