Publication From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication “Always Want to Use it for Everything”: Understanding Young Adults’ Perceptions of AI Dependence Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Amy Heger, Forough Poursabzi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jina Suh AIES 2026 Project
Publication Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Gen Dong, Yanjie Gao, Liqun Li, Tianyin Xu, Yu Hua, Fan Yang August 2026 August 2026
Publication Dion3: Full-Stack Orthogonal Updates Noah Amsel, Jack Zhang, Kwangjun Ahn, Ali Naeimi, Austin Feng, Berlin Chen, Tri Dao, John Langford August 2026 arXiv | August 2026 Github
Publication Beyond “I Can’t Help with That”: How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas, Alex Chouldechova, Eugenia Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan AIES 2026
Publication VidForensics-M1: Meta-Detection Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Temporal Grounding for AI-Generated Video Forensics Bowei Liu, Zheng Lu, Yuhan Bian, Xinchen Zhang, Xin Shui, Yuesheng Huang, Xuhuan Li, Zihao Liu, Yifan Yang, Jun Zhou, Xiu Li August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication The Devil Is in the Interface: Evaluating How Tool Architecture Shapes Coding Agent Behavior Xiangzhe Xu, H. Saghir, Qianhui Wu, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Tongshuai Wang, Kiran Lakkaraju, Kexin Pei, Xiangyu Zhang August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication Actions Speak Louder than Words: Measuring Cross-Lingual Policy Retention in Tool-Using Agents Sourabrata Mukherjee, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram COLM 2026 | August 2026
Publication VERDICT: Training-Free Step-Wise Verification of Multimodal Reasoning via Disagreement-Aware Consensus Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma, Vineeth N Balasubramanian European Conference on Computer Vision 2026 | August 2026
Publication What We Know about Responsible AI Practices in Industry: A Half Decade of Empirical Research Wesley Deng, Agathe Balayn, Andrew D. Selbst, Jason I. Hong, Motahhare Eslami, Kenneth Holstein, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Solon Barocas August 2026 arXiv | August 2026