USC/ISI researchers examine who gets influenced online and why, in award-winning research recognized at ICWSM 2025.

Papers explore the struggles of AI teaching, authorship, AI safety, and the limits of language models in interviews and mime.

A study by ISI researchers was referenced.

Yolanda Gil, Principal Scientist and Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives in AI and Data Science at ISI, is interviewed in the LA Times about the Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan.

In 1972, following the release of the Pentagon Papers, a small institute in Los Angeles was given the power to design, develop and run the Internet. What followed was one of the greatest explosions of information in human history.

EP. 17 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Steve Crago

USC students and researchers track where AI is having the biggest impact on jobs, salaries, and industries.

ISI researchers show how liberals and conservatives use diverging frames to discuss abortion—with increasing hostility.

Eleven papers explore labor inequality, language bias, political division, and TikTok’s role in crisis communication.

The rising threat of generative AI in misinformation campaigns may eventually erode trust in democratic institution.