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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great work Matthew. Wanted to share this work because it appears we should be chatting more! arxiv.org/abs/2601.21920

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My lab will be busy at COLM 2026! 1. Main conference: - Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning arxiv.org/abs/2606.19625 We present a method for answering causal hypotheses about where in a dataset behaviors emerge. We apply our method to social reasoning.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We cant afford a future of work without the future of workers. w/ Samir Passi (Microsoft), @markriedl.bsky.social (@gtresearch.bsky.social), Todd McNutt (John Hopkins Medicine), @kous2v.bsky.social (UIUC) and Sara Alcorn (UMN Medical School).

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to seeing how D&S builds on the existing work in this space and charts new ground from there. I hope other organizations and funders put their efforts into this space.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Before this project launched, I enjoyed discussing our CHI paper with Aiha from @datasociety.bsky.social , who had excellent questions and insights. This projects case study on coders brought back memories of the framework verification on sociotechnical immunity we did with software engineers.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We proposed a solution: building 🛡️ sociotechnical immunity so that work with AI is DIGNIFIED-- protect expertise, agency, and dignity.(not just faster, better, quicker). Honestly, I wish more people were looking at this. Im glad to see a whole program built around it.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We studied 🩺 cancer doctors using AI for an entire year. Finding-- while the AI made the metrics better, there was a hidden cost: it was deskilling them. Sadly, the AIs productivity boost hid the erosion underneath, making the deskilling asymptomatic (which is why its so hard to catch).

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Data & Society just launched Worker Lens on the AI Economy, It's asking a question I've spent almost half a decade on. So I read it closely 👀. Some parts that stood out: Most future of work studies miss the workers. Many count jobs. Far fewer ask what happens to the workers. The hype tells us...

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This worker is not alone in feeling like this. Even cancer doctors feel like AI "button pushers". The "soul sucking" is the identity commoditization part. More? Check out this award-winning piece at #CHI2026 to learn more about how AI hollows out workers asymptomatically. bsky.app/profile/upol...

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Only experts should use AI, not learners.” But what if using AI deskills experts? Oncology doctors became less skilled as they used AI in their profession. A 1 year study.

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Joe Michaelis @joemichaelis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This paper needs to influence HCI in a major way. Included these findings in a teacher AI literacy workshop this summer and it is one of the lasting impressions the teachers took away. They really empathized with seeing other professionals lose skill and identity and I think it shocked them.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thanks for including in it the class and sharing it. This paper was 4 years in the making. I'm glad people are resonating.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They want to pace in the same way I want to "pace" my boba tea addiction.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026

Welcome to Bluesky.

Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Despite all the "missed takes" and imperfections in the paper, I just wish my past self knew how good he was (and thus kinder to himself). All of us should be kinder to not just our present selves but our past selves. A lot of peace can come from that.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I cherish that a lot when I reread them years later. It reminds me of an Upol at a time in his life that I might have forgotten. Those reminders help me never get complacent on the current one because I know how much he gave to the process. There's no way in hell I'd let him down with this one

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every single paper I've ever published encodes in its words a part of me that only I know and can see: joys, tragedy, struggle, determination, relentlessness, pursuit for excellence, despondency. It's a dissonance to be able to decode something so private in a public artifact.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me during #CHI writing season. May the odds be in your favor this year. Happy writing!

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Went to local fair today. AI slop was everywhere. All the food vendors printed out similar looking designs, making it really hard for anyone to stand out. Food pictures were so AI'ed up that you miss the badly designed MS paint ones. Welcome to enshittification of the small joys of life.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It Really is and I’m Speaking from Experience. I didn’t plan to get sick but went to a hospital there and the visit was very inexpensive….

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For those who write tenure letters: you play an important role here. For the last few years I include a statement that the funding environment is bad and while any funding wins should be celebrated, lack of fundraising success should no longer be used as a meaningful metric for tenure.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

[Pls repost + break the filter bubble] Are there economists who are looking at the cost of long-term deskilling amongst knowledge workers caused by AI-enabled workflows? If yes, and you're interested to work on a frontier project that has tremendous funding potential, get in touch!

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Glad they might retire it. These platforms often facilitate Temu-user studies. Cheap + poor quality. mTurk has been bad since 2018/19. My hope is that it will push for better human evals but the more likely outcome is a total replacement of so-called crowdsourcing with LLM responses.

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎤 On Apr 28 at 5pm I'm at BRAC University for one of these sessions, and I am not gatekeeping anything. 🎯 Come and ask me things chatGPT can't answer and you can't just google. Looking forward to an engaging session. 🙏 Thanks to Prof. S M Taiabul Haque for the invitation! 6/6 n=6

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

These days, I mostly do Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) sessions where the audience drives the conversation. It's risky. I can't prepare like I would for a structured talk. But it gives me something better: a chance to learn what actually matters to the community I'm talking to. 5/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

⚡️ In ecosystems where local and global contexts collide, there's a lack of concrete, grounded information coming directly from experience delivered in a straightforward manner. So instead of doing research talks, I flipped the script. 4/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

✨ The most energizing part was often the Q&A. And more specifically, it's the "off-topic" questions around broader issues that generated the most enthusiasm and value. 💡I used to think of that as noise, when, in fact, it was signal. It was a feature not a bug. 2/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Not everyone has the privilege to give back. I'm grateful I can. And I've drastically changed how I do it when it comes to talks. 📍 With 60+ talks in 20+ countries, I started noticing something special during my talks in the Majority World, especially in countries like Bangladesh. 1/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thanks Matthew! Grateful for all your help in this journey.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Congratulations to @upolehsan.bsky.social, who won the Georgia Tech College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. The impact of his work on human-centered explainable AI (XAI) cannot be understated. The last chapter of Upol's dissertation also just won an Honorable Mention at CHI. #ProudAdvisor

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Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As the daughter of a cancer survivor who went through radiation, the partner of a physician, an educator, and a sociotechnical researcher who loves long-term in-situ work, really appreciating @upolehsan.bsky.social presentation and can't wait to read the paper! #chi2026 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms to Foster Dignified Human-AI Interaction | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 15/04/2026

Initial [AI-LLM] operational gains hid ``intuition rust'': the gradual dulling of expert judgment. These asymptomatic effects evolved into chronic harms, such as skill atrophy and identity commoditization.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Learn about the "AI-as-Amplifier Paradox" at #CHI2026. Skill amplification? Or skill erosion? Or both? (CHI Honorable Mention Paper)

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Institutions represented--- @northeasternu.bsky.social, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, @gtresearch.bsky.social , @nuglobalnews.bsky.social , @University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Microsoft AI, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

With my amazing co-authors (a great team of clinicians and CS researchers): Samir Passi, @kous2v.bsky.social, Todd McNutt, @markriedl.bsky.social, Sara Alcorn. 6/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is the first work to reveal how AI not only can deskill you but how it can do so in an *asymptomatic* manner. Come by to learn why no one else caught it till now, and why it's actually hard to catch. 5/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Come by to learn about why cancer doctors' identity of who they are were eroded because of long-term AI use, what we can do about it, and why we need to talk about it. 4/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What we found is this something I wish we didn't find--- we knew AI can deskill you. What we didn't anticipate was *HOW* it would do it. What we also didn't anticipate was the barriers we faced in sharing about it. 3/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The paper is almost 4 years in the making; the study itself ran for 1 year. Very rare for AI studies to run that long. We are not aware of anyone else who did this with real doctors across these many sites in such a high stakes domain (radiation oncology) in the wild in the way we did. 2/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I travelled 27 hrs, fought endless visa issues to give this talk for our award-winning paper at #CHI2026. Your turn to show up 📍 P1, Room 112, Apr 15 (Wed), 12 noon. But why? I wish the didn't impact every knowledge worker. Sadly, it does, and we need to talk about it. 1/n

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Is it even CHI if the wifi works? The "Premier" venue of Human computer interaction research currently facing workshop rooms that don't have tables or extension cords. Each of us paid $1200+ to attend. Many of us traveled 27+ hours in the middle of a war. Fought months of visa wats.

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khourycollege.bsky.social @khourycollege.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

As Khoury College's faculty and student researchers descend on Barcelona this week, they're asking how technology — particularly AI — can fulfill users' needs, enhance their abilities, and amplify their humanity. Read more: bit.ly/4miAO6t

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congrats to @upolehsan.bsky.social and team. Their CHI'26 paper won an Honorable Mention award! "From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction" (arxiv.org/abs/2601.21920) dives into the AI-as-Amplifier paradox, explained in comic form.

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From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction

In the future of work discourse, AI is touted as the ultimate productivity amplifier. Yet, beneath the efficiency gains lie subtle erosions of human expertise and agency. This paper shifts focus from ...

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