Does everyone need to do a PhD? No. Do we need PhDs for a prospering society? Absolutely. High-risk, high-effort, and low-monetary-reward breakthroughs require diligent workers. America’s long-term prosperity is more dependent on this expertise than most imagine.

The EU’s 🇪🇺 First Major DSA Fine: Why X is in Trouble 1/ The European Commission just issued its first non-compliance fine under the Digital Services Act (DSA), hitting X with a €120 million penalty. The argument? X is failing its transparency obligations in three massive ways.

‼️ 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Full Papers deadline coming soon! 📅 Submission Deadline: 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🚨Decision notification: 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Check out our 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: chiwork.org/26/call-for-... 📖 Accepted papers will be published Open Access in 𝐀𝐂𝐌 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 dl.acm.org/conference/c...

In 2023 we showed in a PNAS article that AI can very effectively adapt to humans' folk theories about what is AI writing and be "more human than human" @mjakesch.bsky.social arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...

I am a Hybrid Chair for CHIwork 2026 (chiwork.org/26/), and we are still seeking more participation in the Programming Committee tinyurl.com/hm9w3xxn, as we anticipate a higher number of submissions. Thank you #CHIWORK2026 #HCI #FutureOfWork

Excellent case study just out from academic colleagues @johannagunawan.bsky.social et al. , on the types of HCI evidence accepted in policymaking against Dark Patterns (@deceptive.design). policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Why don’t autonomous vehicle companies share crash data — and how can they start? @sandhaus.bsky.social Cornell Tech researchers are tackling one of the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicle safety: the lack of shared crash and safety data. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3WUUXnu

Welcoming all new @acm-cscw.bsky.social followers 🥰! I presented my paper "My Precious Crash Data: Barriers and Opportunities in Encouraging Autonomous Driving Companies to Share Safety-Critical Data" with @angelhwang.bsky.social , @fabulousqian.bsky.social and @wendyju.bsky.social already online!

Join us for NYC Privacy Day 2025 at Cornell Tech, hosted by DLI @nissenbaum.bsky.social and SETS @mantzarlis.com. We have a great selection of speakers and alongside talks, we’ll feature student posters + demos. 🔗 Details, registration, and poster submission: dli.tech.cornell.edu/nyc-privacy-...

Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend DIS in Madeira, Portugal. 🇵🇹🏝️ I recorded my presentation on how Technology Design Students use GenAI in class projects, accelerating design iteration but causing negative sentiment about learning and reflection skills. supercut.ai/share/cornel...

Thanks for citing our work, and leaning into the implications we unpack in the discussion! arxiv.org/abs/2505.07085

Some students hope to keep working on their labeler and build it out beyond the current prototype stage. This includes the group behind @bsky-sci-verify.bsky.social. an effort to make scientists self-ID through their ORCID accounts and provide context on their scholarly effort. Check it out!

"She was not ready to rule on the argument that the chatbot’s messages are protected speech “at this stage,” adding that the defendants had failed to articulate “why words strung together” by an AI system should be considered speech." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Came across this arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540 @cornelltech.bsky.social paper from @rishi-jha.bsky.social, et al. showing the possibility to „translate unknown embeddings into a different space while preserving their geometry“ on TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdh5H7Ro/

We (with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social @paper-feed.bsky.social) launched a new feed: Paper Skygest Bookmarks. This captures all posts about papers that you've liked on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/did:...

FAccT paper pre-print out: 👀🛡️ "Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery" examines how massive street imagery datasets enable harmful group membership inferences despite individual anonymization techniques and applies contextual integrity to analyze information flows in DSI. arxiv.org/abs/2505.07085

DIS Pre-Print out: 🤖🎨 "Co-Designing with Algorithms". We analyze how design students integrate GenAI into their workflows, revealing benefits during execution phases but critical limitations in discovery and reflection. arxiv.org/abs/2410.14048

Excited to share the pre-prints for three new first-author papers, coming to DIS, FAccT, and CSCW:

“Although European funding can’t replace the billions that have vanished from U.S. research budgets” www.science.org/content/arti...

Without the knowledge to analyze and understand which AI outputs to accept and which to discard, your work will actually be disastrous for business and society.

You might say “Writing is thinking”, and so are sketching, writing code, and coding user interviews. We have seen “how” students in our HCI class use GenAI can either hinder or support their thinking. arxiv.org/abs/2405.01467 www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

I don't trust opinions from non-vegetarians (or hunters) regarding the suffering of potentially conscious LLMs whet there are actually sentient beings among us.

Deleted Facebook yesterday, full of AI clickbait and rage - that one is easy. I’ll miss what my friends posted 2005-2015, but there is no reason to be on Facebook any longer.

Patterns that promote the common good, through virtue ethics. I look forward to reading the full paper. :)

Hi, I'm On Here now! Here's what I've been up to for the past year: 1. "The Cadaver in the Machine: The Social Practices of Measurement and Validation in Motion Capture Technology", by me, @sandhaus.bsky.social, Abigail Jacobs, Emanuel Moss, and Mona Sloane @ #CHI24! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...