Happy Lab News

Milestones, talks, collaborations, and updates from the lab.

"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!
Is This AI? was accepted to AIES 2026. Congrats to the authors!
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!
A joint work with Lindsay Sanneman and Anil Murthy was accepted to NeurIPS LLM-Eval Workshop.
Jaron and Tanusree from the GPSLab were recently awarded Google Research Scholar Grant for their proposal: "Designing Accessible Tools for Blind and Low-Vision People to Navigate Deepfake Media"
We're excited to welcome Ashely Ishoel and Harshit Mathur for their SURI internships!
Aditi, Joy, and Nihaarika are the newest folks working with the Happy Lab! Welcome!
Jaron is heading out to the Bi-Annual NSF PI meeting to represent ASU's Grant with Tufts
We're on the move to the annual SOUPS+USENIX Security conference marathon and Miranda Wei will be presenting her paper "SoK or So(L)K? On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors". Check it out!
Jaron gave an invited talk at Loyola University's SecureAI Cybersecurity Training Program!
Jaron gave a guest lecture at MadS&P in Madison on the "Human Factors in Secure and Non-Abusive AI"!