My lab is presenting today at FAccT! 🎉
We study what AI-enhanced technologies justice-impacted individuals imagine
Rather than seeking AI to fight the justice system, they envisioned AI to help navigate its power structures
Saiph Savage
@saiphcita
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💼Assistant Prof. at Northeastern in Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
🔬 Director Civic AI Lab
🔭 Research: HCI, Gig Work, Future of Work, Crowdsourcing, Disinfo.
👷♀️Former Tech Worker
👩🎓UNAM +UCSB alumni
myrmepropagandistI've created a search on iNaturalist that lets you look at all of the different kinds of nests that ants construct.
internetarchiveThe web is disappearing 🕳️
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.
Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
VANISHING CULTURE 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new
Excited to be at CHI presenting our research on co-designing collaborative GenAI tools for gig workers!
🌟Key insights:
Freelancers push back on AI “efficiency logic”
➡️ Freelancers instead propose “Auxiliary AI” + productive friction: AI as support, not orchestrator
Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3790280
#chi2026 #chi26
I met with US Senator Ed Markey. I am grateful & proud he cited my research on the invisible labor powering AI.
My research creates new tools to measure how workers fuel AI platforms under precarious, unseen conditions.
🚨 Job Alert: IPIE is hiring a Consulting Scientist (AI & Economic Inclusion)!
Join us to shape global policy on AI + inequality.
Remote, part-time, starting July 2025:
🌟https://www.ipie.info/careers/consulting-scientist-ai-and-economic-inclusion
Excited to host Prof. Steven Dow from UC San Diego for a talk on Human-AI collaboration and collective creativity! 🌍💡
📅 April 22 | 🕔 5:00 PM |
✨Join us with Boston CHI to explore how AI can empower communities to solve complex problems together.
cc:@stevendow
Had a lovely lab celebration for our new CHI research on generative AI & labor with visually impaired software developers 🎉👩🏽💻🧑🏾💻
We also celebrated the amazing new PhD students joining the lab — excited for what’s ahead! 🚀✨
📌See our paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16491
#chi2025
I was on the Deutsche Welle talking at UNAM about human-centered AI in Latin America — and why we must build:
☑️AI powered tech grounded in our cultures & communities
☑️AI for the workplace that empowers workers across the region
📺See video: https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/why-latin-america-needs-its-own-ai-systems/vi-AA1BIgoW?ocid=hpmsn
🚨 New CHI'25 paper alert!
"The Impact of Generative AI Coding Assistants on Developers Who Are Visually Impaired"
📄We study how GitHub Copilot both helps & overwhelms low-vision developers, prompting some to take "AI timeouts."
