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I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

🔍 Gearing up for #CHI2025? @devsaxena.bsky.social and I can't wait to present our approach to tackle AI innovation challenges: "AI Mismatch Matrices", designed to help innovators foresee and sidestep potential issues from the get-go. Take a glimpse at our one-pager flyer! #Human-AI #AIResearch

At a moment when the largest AI companies are all openly aligning with Trumpism, I'm proud to share a new report:

*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*

By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz

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This is why I am so skeptical about the “innovation + democratization ” narrative — for one thing, if the “innovators “ that will benefit from the “democratization of tech” are basically people who would like to be acquired by tech giants… it is not democratization. It is a reassurance of power…

Thoughts after reading Ted Chiang's commentary about AI-generated art: rather than focusing on whether AI will democratize art creation, a more important perspective, maybe for me, is examining exploitation in the traditional art world and whether AI has amplified that power imbalance