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cs.CY2026

Qualifying and Quantifying Risk Under the EU AI Act

Gustavo Gil Gasiola, Sarah H. Cen, Frederike Zufall

The EU AI Act uses a risk-based approach to regulate AI systems, calibrating the intensity of regulation according to the risks they pose. While the term 'risk' implies quantificat…

cs.CY2026

Taxing Artificial Intelligence

Juliette Faivre, Sarah H. Cen

While AI promises major benefits, its development and deployment can shift costs onto others, including environmental pressures on local communities, labor and creative displacemen…

cs.CL2026

Using AI Agents to Automate Black-Box Audits of Personalization Algorithms at Scale

Alessandro Morosini, Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas +3

Personalization algorithms determine what content users encounter on online platforms. Auditing these systems is difficult because independent auditors have only black-box access t…

cs.CY2026

Barriers to Evidence in AI-Related Cases and the Privatization of Proof

Sarah H. Cen, Hannah Ismael, Lucia Zheng

Evidence lies at the core of litigation, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain in AI-related disputes. Even when a claimant's position has merit, cases are often settled or di…

cs.CY2026

Do LLMs Track Public Opinion? A Multi-Model Study of Favorability Predictions in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Riya Parikh, Sarah H. Cen, Chara Podimata

We investigate whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can track public opinion as measured by exit polls during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle. Our analysis focuses on hea…

cs.CY2026

The Limits of AI Data Transparency Policy: Three Disclosure Fallacies

Judy Hanwen Shen, Ken Liu, Angelina Wang +7

Data transparency has emerged as a rallying cry for addressing concerns about AI: data quality, privacy, and copyright chief among them. Yet while these calls are crucial for accou…

cs.CY2025

Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives

Sarah H. Cen, Salil Goyal, Zaynah Javed +3

AI audits play a critical role in AI accountability and safety. One branch of the law for which AI audits are particularly salient is anti-discrimination law. Several areas of anti…

cs.CY2025

The California Report on Frontier AI Policy

Rishi Bommasani, Scott R. Singer, Ruth E. Appel +20

The innovations emerging at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to create historic opportunities for humanity but also raise complex policy challenges. Continue…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Measuring Strategization in Recommendation: Users Adapt Their Behavior to Shape Future Content

Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Jennifer Allen +2

Most modern recommendation algorithms are data-driven: they generate personalized recommendations by observing users' past behaviors. A common assumption in recommendation is that…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

User Strategization and Trustworthy Algorithms

Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Aleksander Madry

Many human-facing algorithms -- including those that power recommender systems or hiring decision tools -- are trained on data provided by their users. The developers of these algo…