AI-Enabled Abuse
How AI is abused, and how abuse is mitigated, in practice.
AI Sexual Content • Norms, Rules, & Moderation of AI Sexual Community • Longitudinal Analysis of AI Detection Methods • Bias in AI Media Moderation • Perceptions of AI Media
Human Aspects of cyber Protection & PrivacY
The Happy Lab studies how people shape the security, privacy, and real-world use of AI systems. We investigate where human factors create new vulnerabilities, where they unlock better defenses, and how to build safer AI systems in practice.
Recent News
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Jaron gave a talk at the Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference on our work understanding AI-generated sexual content creators and their communities.
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Operationalizing Welcoming in Cybersecurity Communities: How Organizers Try to Shape Culture was accepted to IEEE S&P 2027. Congrats to the authors!
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Do Newer Models Make Better Tutors?: Characterizing Real-World Failures of AI Tutors in Higher Education Across Two Years, Two Prompts, and Five Models was accepted to SIGCSE TS 2027. Congrats to the authors!
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Do Hackers Dream of Electric Teachers? was accepted to CCS 2026. Congrats to the authors!
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Is This AI? was accepted to AIES 2026. Congrats to the authors!
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"I Thought You Were The Uncensored Place": Norms, Rules, and Moderation in AI-Generated Sexual Content Communities was accepted to AIES 2026. Congrats to the authors!
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Humans of Generative AI @ CVPR, a workshop on understanding how sociotechnical insights can inform technical AI design, is coming to Denver in just under two weeks. Hope to see you there!
Research Areas
AI for Security Applications
How AI can be integrated into security-sensitive environments.
AI Tutor Failures Across Models • AI Cyber Tutors • LLM Use in SOCs • AI Use in SOCs
Security and Privacy of AI
How sociotechnical factors impact real-world security and privacy of AI.
Security and Privacy (General)
System security, usable security and privacy, and evaluation of HCI methodology.
Symbolic Exec GUI • Audit Log SoK • Bot Survey Fraud • Survey Fraud SoK • Privacy Zones • Welcoming in Cybersecurity • Sociodemographics
Interested in working with the group?
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