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Sauvik Das

@sauvik.me
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I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 27/09/2026
New #UIST2026 paper led by @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social WhatIf lets policymakers steer, inspect, and compare large-scale LLM-powered social simulations in real time. It helped emergency professionals recognize previously unrecognized planning vulnerabilities. Paper: sauvikdas.com/papers/74/se...
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 26/09/2026
New #AIES2026 paper led by @hankhplee: Agentic AI devs focus on product and business risks over downstream risks like job displacement and privacy. Lacking mature controls, they contain risk by constraining the same capabilities that make agents useful. sauvikdas.com/papers/73/s...
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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee @hankhplee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📣 New paper alert 📣 What if AI agents' biggest strength is also their biggest risk? "The Perils of Agency: How Developers Perceive, Prioritize, and Address Risks in Agentic AI Products" (#AIES2026) 📑 hankhplee.com/papers/aies2... 🧵1/9
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 10/07/2026
Spoke to Aditi Bharade from Business Insider about how to identify AI slop apps: www.businessinsider.com/ai-coded-ap...
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There are 3 telltale signs that you used AI to make your app — and they aren't pretty
In a sea of cookie-cutter vibe-coded apps, it's getting harder to stand out. Here's what you can change in yours to set yourself apart.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 06/07/2026
I stopped using Google Analytics on my site almost 10 years ago because I didn't want to contribute to even more cookie-based tracking. Over the weekend, I used a Claude loop to set up self-hosted, cookieless analytics and I'm...pleasantly surprised that it worked so well.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 03/07/2026
We are hiring an assistant professor to join @hcde.uw.edu in Autumn 2027. We welcome applications in all areas, with a focus on: (1) Environment and sustainability; (2) Civic infrastructure and society; (3) Labor and the future of work. Learn more & apply: apply.interfolio.com/188238
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sorelle @friedler.net · 26/06/2026
Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026
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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Anonymity, Consent, And Other Noble Lies: An Empirical Study of The Data Economy
While legal scholars have cited decades of computer science research that demonstrates why anonymity is hard (and that datasets should not be labelled as "
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In 2019 it took 6 months for GPT-2 to go from too-dangerous to release. Claude Mythos/Fable ran that cycle in 2 months. The AI PR singularity is amongst us. In 2029, there will be zero latency between a company saying a model is too dangerous and it being released.
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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our work on how gen ai is impacting the labor conditions and power of professional visual artists got a great writeup from Brian Merchant! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inf...
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The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts
An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.
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Yuxuan Li @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Excited to share that our paper has been accepted to 𝗜𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🎉 Multi-agent is everywhere today. But put frontier LLMs in a room where each holds a different piece of the puzzle, and they fail 70% of the time. Here's why: 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11556
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Systematic Failures in Collective Reasoning under Distributed Information in Multi-Agent LLMs
Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are expected to enhance decision-making by pooling distributed information, yet systematically evaluating this capability has remained challen...
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 24/04/2026
When was the last time you read a paper end-to-end for non-reviewing purposes? Seems like we write more than ever and read less than ever. (I'm guilty too) GenAI tools are kind of like a ddos attack on our attention. Far too much being produced to handle and justify consuming.
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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...
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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...
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CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute @hcii.cmu.edu · 15/04/2026
Carnegie Mellon University authors from 12 different @cmu.edu depts contributed to 76 #CHI2026 papers: 🛠️ New tools & systems 🧠 New frameworks & taxonomies ☑️ New ways to audit tech 🆕 New advancements in Accessibility, Health, Design & so much more... Details here: hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-chi...
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Yuxuan Li @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Excited to be heading to Barcelona for #CHI2026 to host our workshop PoliSim: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy! This year, we’ve seen incredible interest from researchers across HCI, NLP, CSS, and Policy. We accepted 25 outstanding papers, with 5 selected as Best Paper nominees.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 31/03/2026
The overleaf git project for one of my #uist2026 submissions was assigned a uuid starting with "67". I believe this lets me mine the latest block on the gen alpha blockchain using the "Proof of Relevance" protocol. Who should I speak with about this
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Will AI become a confirmation bias machine? AI can be a powerful tool for truth-seeking. Yet, people might prefer to use AI to confirm their pre-existing beliefs, and features of AI systems (eg sycophancy) may make AI effective at justifying what people want to believe. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee @hankhplee.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Really excited that “Privy” received a CHI ’26 Honorable Mention Award 🏅 Privy is part of my PhD work on AI privacy: understanding AI privacy risks, studying why they’re hard to address in practice, and building tools that help product teams act on them.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 13/03/2026
I am working on a UX audit agent for my company (fuguux.com/). I passed in the output of our audit agent into Claude code for my personal website and...voila, a refreshed and much better site. Surprised it worked! Before -> after sauvik.me
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 09/03/2026
An exciting development: Privy was recognized with a best paper honorable mention at #chi2026! Congrats to the whole team, including: @hankhplee.bsky.social @kyzyl.me @jodiforlizzi.bsky.social
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 02/03/2026
Honored to be named Privacy co-chair of ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee with @benwinters.bsky.social On that note: please read USTPC's statement discouraging adtech vendors from sharing personal data with DHS/ICE.
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Yuxuan Li @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Can LLMs really serve as "crash dummies" for security & privacy testing? We put this assumption to the test. 🚨New preprint 🚨: "How Well Can LLM Agents Simulate End-User Security and Privacy Attitudes and Behaviors?" 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.184... [1/n]
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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New statement from the ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee on AdTech & DHS privacy/security: computing experts urge stronger safeguards around government use of advertising-tech data collection. #Privacy #Security #TechPolicy acm.org/binaries/con...
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Yuxuan Li @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨New paper🚨 We spent a year working with emergency preparedness policymakers to answer a simple question: can LLM agent simulations actually help real institutions make better decisions? The answer is yes—but perhaps not how you'd expect. 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.218... [1/n]
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 10/02/2026
📣 New at #CHI2026 People share sensitive things “anonymously”… but anonymity is hard to reason about. What if we could quantify re-identification risk with AI? How should we present those AI-estimated risks to users? Led by my student Isadora Krsek Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/70/s...
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 09/02/2026
📣 New at #CHI2026 Developing a new AI product? How would you figure out what are the privacy risks? Privy help non-privacy expert practitioners create high quality privacy impact assessments for early-stage AI products. Led by @hankhplee.bsky.social Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/69/s...
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sorelle @friedler.net · 21/01/2026
New @acm.org U.S. Tech Policy Committee response to DHS proposed visa rule collecting social media data identifies serious risks to U.S. competitiveness in computer science research: www.acm.org/binaries/con... #TechPolicy
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Yuxuan Li @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 New CHI 2026 Workshop 🚨 PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy
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CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute @hcii.cmu.edu · 19/11/2025
Sounds like a great opportunity for anyone building a spring 2026 schedule right now! Hey @cmu.edu students, check out this HCII special topics course "Building Technologies for the Resistance." 👀 hcii.cmu.edu/course/speci... #privacy #cybersecurity #ethics #TechEthics #SurveillanceCapitalism
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Special Topics: Building Technologies for the Resistance | Human-Computer Interaction Institute
How can we build usable, ethical technologies to resist surveillance capitalism? We live in an era where powerful institutions harvest and monetize user data, attention, and intellectual property with...
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 19/11/2025
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 19/11/2025
I'm fortunate to be able to teach my new class on "Building Technologies for the Resistance" next semester. If you're a CMU student, consider enrolling! This will be a collaborative, project-based class where you'll get to prototype resistance technologies.
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Dr. Jacob Lagogiannis @logas.me · 14/11/2025
I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication! This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.
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Jason Hong @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Gave a talk at PGH TechFest on The Promise and Perils of AI for Products. I summarize capabilities of AI today, challenges (trust, explainability, human agency), and recommendations.
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Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosiwang.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🚀💫 I’m on the job market for academic (tenure-track) and industry research positions! 👋I am a Postdoc Fellow at @hcii.cmu.edu working at the intersection of human-AI interaction, cognitive science, responsible AI, design, and social computing. I earned my PhD from @gtresearch.bsky.social in 2024.
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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee @hankhplee.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by @cylab.bsky.social ! Endless thanks to my advisors @sauvik.me and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 22/10/2025
Congrats to my student @hankhplee.bsky.social for being recognized as one of the 2025 CyLab Presidential fellows! cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/1...
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CyLab names 2025 Presidential Fellows
Each year, CyLab recognizes high-achieving Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research, with a CyLab Presidential Fellowship, covering an entire year of tuition.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 20/10/2025
Two spuddies will be at #CSCW2025: @yuxiwu.com will present our work on designing citizen harm reporting interfaces for privacy (and is on the job market!). Isadora Krsek will present our work on user reactions to AI-identified self-disclosure risks online.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 17/10/2025
Honored to be one of the recipients of the Google Academic Research Awards this year! @alan-ritter.bsky.social and I will further our work on exploring how AI can be used to help users make safe disclosure decisions online. research.google/programs-an...
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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 17/10/2025
tl;dr: i'm on the academic job market; say hi at #CSCW2025! i'm a distinguished postdoc fellow at northeastern studying how tech's deep entanglements into society have caused concrete harms to people and changed what privacy fundamentally means (is it dead? is it recoverable? how? 😨) yuxiwu.com
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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm on the job market looking for CS/ischool faculty and related positions! I'm broadly interested in doing research with policymakers and communities impacted by AI to inform and develop mitigations to harms and risks. If you've included any of my work in syllabi or policy docs please let me know!
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CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute @hcii.cmu.edu · 13/10/2025
Don't miss 3 TechFest sessions with @hcii.cmu.edu faculty: -"What can AI do for UX? Separating fact from fiction" Sauvik Das @sauvik.me -"The Promise and Peril of AI for Products" Jason Hong @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social -"Rapid Research Methods: Assumption Artifacts" Raelin Musuraca @raelinm.bsky.social
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 13/10/2025
The 1st Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security (#HAIPS2025) workshop at CCS will happen on Oct 17th! We have two amazing keynote speakers (@pgk.bsky.social and @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social), and a slate of insightful and provocative papers. Agenda here: haips.com/#dates #CCS2025 #AcademicSky
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Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ 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
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 06/10/2025
#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already. Some (updated) tips I wrote about this: sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
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A quick guide to reviewing papers quick
Last year, the world was on fire [1]. While it burned, I reviewed. A lot. More than I care to review again in a single year.
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 27/09/2025
📣 Accepted to #AIES2025: What do the audio datasets powering generative audio models actually contain? (led by @willie-agnew.bsky.social) Answer: Lots of old audio content that is mostly English, often biased, and of dubious copyright / permissioning status. Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/65/s...
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 26/09/2025
🔐 New #UIST2025 paper by @kyzyl.me Imago Obscura uses #vision #language #models to understand user #privacy concerns, improve their awareness of image privacy risks, and their ability to address these risks. 📜: sauvik.me/papers/66/se... 🔗: cmu-spuds.github.io/imago-obscura/ #PrivacySky
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 18/09/2025
Honestly, now I want to write a piper titled: "[mention a specific relevant paper by them]"
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