Thursday, November 12, 2026
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Who Gets to Make AI Safe? Toward Participatory AI Safety
About this event
BostonCHI hosts Carnegie Mellon HCI professor Hong Shen at Northeastern on why people affected by AI should help decide what counts as safe, and how participation complements technical evaluation.
Hong Shen, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and leader of the CARE Lab, argues that people who use, work with or are affected by AI should help decide what counts as safe and have a role in how it is built, tested and governed.
She draws on research into auditing algorithms in daily life, community-focused design and AI companions, and weighs the risks of participation, including shifting work onto those harmed by AI failures. The agenda is networking, a talk from 6:00 to 6:45 pm, then Q&A and networking until 7:30.
In person in Room 366, Khoury College, 440 Huntington Avenue, Boston.
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Boston community for human-computer interaction and UX professionals, hosting talks on design, research and AI.