THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
I study the influence of emerging technologies, such as AI and social media, on belief formation and social cohesion. I also explore how AI is reshaping the practice of social science research. My work draws on computational social science, social networks, political sociology, and the sociology of knowledge.
Recent Research / Recent Publications
Kim, Junsol, and Byungkyu Lee. 2026. “AI-Augmented Surveys: Leveraging Large Language Models and Surveys for Opinion Prediction.” Sociological Methodology. Forthcoming.
Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans. (2025). “Differential impact from individual versus collective misinformation tagging on the diversity of Twitter (X) information engagement and mobility.” Nature Communications, 16(1), 973.
Junsol Kim, James Evans, Aaron Schein. “Linear Representations of Political Ideology Emerge in Large Language Models.” Proceedings of the ICLR 2025 (Oral).
Shiyang Lai, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans. (2024). “Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation.” Proceedings of the ICML 2024 (pp. 25892-25912).
Yujin Potter, Shiyang Lai, Junsol Kim, James Evans, Dawn Song. (2024). “Hidden Persuaders: LLMs’ Political Leaning and Their Influence on Voters.” Proceedings of the EMNLP 2024 (pp. 4244-4275).
Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans (2023). "Individual misinformation tagging reinforces echo chambers; Collective tagging does not." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.11282.
Junsol Kim, Byungkyu Lee (2023). "AI-Augmented Surveys: Leveraging Large Language Models for Opinion Prediction in Nationally Representative Surveys." arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09620.
Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Seyul Kwak and Jeanyung Chey. (2021). “Neural and Social Correlates of Attitudinal Brokerage: Using the Complete Social Networks of Two Entire Villages.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1944), 20202866.
Yoosik Youm, Byungkyu Lee, Junsol Kim. (2021). “A Measure of Centrality in Cyclic Diffusion Processes: Walk-Betweenness.” PLoS ONE, 16(1), e0245476.
Ryan Hyon, Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Jeanyung Chey, Seyul Kwak, Carolyn Parkinson. (2020). "Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(52), 33149-33160.