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.

See:
🏦https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-markey-rep-jayapal-lead-colleagues-in-demanding-answers-from-ai-companies-on-use-of-underpaid-overworked-data-workers

🧪https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.00169

🚨 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

#AI #Policy #EconomicInclusion #ResearchJobs #TechForGood

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."

🔴See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16491

#chi2025

🚀 Just launched a mini-course on starting in gig work with Generative AI!

I teach you how to use AI to find the best gigs based on your skillset and cultural background—so you can maximize your earnings & work smarter.

🔵Check it out:
https://youtu.be/o2J_sRkdvIY💡🔥
#GigWork #AI

🚀 Exciting mini course alert!

My research lab with UNAM hosted a hands-on session for civic institutions, teaching them how to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey data using:
✅ Generative AI
✅ Social theories
✅HCD

🤖📊Slides:
https://tinyurl.com/2xzvxydw