5 papers
Abstracted Away: Resisting Alienation and Ungrounded Abstraction in AI Research Communities
Vyoma Raman, Isabel O. Gallegos, Neha Srivathsa
Logics of abstraction in computational AI research often push important forms of knowledge and reflection aside: dominant standards of legitimacy separate from lived experience of…
Attention to Non-Adopters
Kaitlyn Zhou, Kristina GligoriÄ, Myra Cheng +7
Although language model-based chat systems are increasingly used in daily life, most Americans remain non-adopters of chat-based LLMs -- as of June 2025, 66% had never used ChatGPT…
Assessing Human Rights Risks in AI: A Framework for Model Evaluation
Vyoma Raman, Camille Chabot, Betsy Popken
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements outline numerous inalienable rights that apply across geopolitical boundaries. As generative AI becomes…
Disclosure and Evaluation as Fairness Interventions for General-Purpose AI
Vyoma Raman, Judy Hanwen Shen, Andy K. Zhang +4
Despite conflicting definitions and conceptions of fairness, AI fairness researchers broadly agree that fairness is context-specific. However, when faced with general-purpose AI, w…
AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County
Faiz Surani, Mirac Suzgun, Vyoma Raman +3
Legal reform can be challenging in light of the volume, complexity, and interdependence of laws, codes, and records. One salient example of this challenge is the effort to restrict…