Thursday, December 4, 2025 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Online workshop | Co-hosted by the C+M Center and SWAN
Ruopeng An, Endowed Professor and C+M Center Director at NYU Silver School of Social Work, led the inaugural Social Work AI Network (SWAN) Speaker Series workshop, co-hosted by the C+M Center. Build AI Agents Without Code introduced agentic AI to social and health researchers through a live demonstration in Dify.
The workshop showed how to build a working agent without programming and considered how to select tools for a research task. Examples included role-play training for social work students, qualitative coding of interviews and focus groups, and fact-checking health misinformation.
Dr. An also compared Dify with LangGraph, the OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Smolagents. The session also covered ethical safeguards and the steps involved in developing a prototype.