Each year, we bring together our Siegel fellow cohort for an annual convening. This year’s convening, which included 14 fellows, was held in New York City in mid-March. The timing of our gathering this year felt significant.
Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.
Ruchika Joshi is a Siegel Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she develops technically rigorous solutions for industry […]
Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change
Read new Siegel In-House Research Fellow Symon Campbell’s latest publication in Journal of Integrated Global STEM analyzing three K-12 Black-oriented EdTech platforms developed by Black women—KaiXR, Reconstruction, and TunTimo—leverage public interest technology principles to address educational inequities and counter racial biases in mainstream EdTech.
Yvonne Eadon is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky investigating feminized conspiracy theories and the gender dynamics within online communities that form around them, as well as how information institutions interface with and assist researchers with alternative or conspiratorial viewpoints.
Owen Davis is a labor economist and post-doctoral research fellow at Siegel Family Endowment, where he explores the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Read his latest op-ed, featured in Tech Policy Press, about how we need to collect better data about not only how AI is affecting what work we do, but how it is done.
Siegel Research Fellow Breanna Green reflects on her recent projects that pair her background in psychology and skills in computer science to examine online conversations about political violence.
Siegel In-House Research Fellow Owen Davis reflects on his recent working paper “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Power” and how he hopes to broaden conversation around AI and the workplace beyond just task automation.
Read part two of Siegel Emerging Technology Consultant Eryk Salvaggio’s three part series on the relationships between images, their archives, and datasets.
As part of his 2024 fellowship with Flickr Foundation, Siegel Emerging Technolocy Consultant Eryk Salvaggio dives into the relationships between images, their archives, and datasets through a creative research lens. This three-part series focuses on the ways archives such as Flickr can shape the outputs of generative AI in ways akin to a haunting.