Dec 17, 2025 | Events
AIR Lab member Jake Chanenson and Yaman Yu (UIUC) are co-organizing a CHI 2026 workshop on Youth and AI with a fantastic set of collaborators including Jessica Vitak, Sheena Erete, and Tammy Clegg from UMD, College Park, and Diana Freed (Brown). Check out the website here. The CFP is below:
Generative AI is rapidly redefining the digital environment of youth, presenting exciting opportunities for creativity and learning alongside new challenges related to privacy, safety, and agency. As tools like ChatGPT and Character.AI become embedded in everyday life, critical questions emerge: What distinguishes actual risk from ordinary adolescent experimentation?
How do generative AI tools amplify youth voice and autonomy, and where do they introduce unforeseen vulnerabilities?
What frameworks can guide educators, researchers, designers, and guardians in this evolving landscape?
We invite you to contribute to our upcoming CHI 2026 workshop, which will explore the complex interplay between generative AI, risk, and youth experience.
We welcome:
- short position papers (1-2 pages)
- design proposals
- statements of interest
- policy case studies
Contribute your insights on how youth engage with generative AI, the real-world risks and opportunities these tools present, and methods for conducting responsible, privacy-preserving research and intervention.
All accepted submissions will be published via our workshop website and presented during our two 90-minute in-person sessions (~40 attendees onsite). Participants will collaborate to develop a shared roadmap for responsible, ethical, and empowering youth-AI engagement.
Join us to co-create the future for youth and AI to distinguish risk from agency and contribute to a space for youth exploration and growth. Submissions will be accepted via a Google form on the website.
May 30, 2025 | Events, Graduation
Many many congratulations to our graduating PhD students Brennan Schaffner and Kelly Wagman and our graduating undergraduate students Thomas Chang, Kanchan Naik, and Margaux Reyl and graduating high school student Ava Cohen!
May 21, 2024 | Events, Graduation
Many congratulations to graduating seniors Leo Sun, Michael Cheng, Quinn Thompson, and Natasha Messier. We also congratulate Katherine Dumais and Chirag Mahapatra for completing their masters degrees! Another great year has flown by and we will try to be better about updates moving forward!
Lab lunch
May 24, 2023 | Events, Graduation
We wish all of graduating students all of the best – we will miss you all! This includes college seniors: Abby Barnes, Liv Campili, Jason Chee, Oishee Chakrabarti, Andre Dang, Riya Sahni, Ishaan Singh, and Zoe Torok and high school seniors: Navaneeth Rajan and Yaretzi Ulloa! We are ever so grateful for your contributions and look forward to hearing about your new journeys in the world 🙂
May 2, 2023 | Events, Research
Jake, Andre, Riya, Ishaan, and Leo joined a host of other students and faculty from UChicago Computer Science department to attend the National Robotics Week at the Museum of Science and Industry. This year, they presented two different activities. The first was a game that involved having children and adults guess what data various stakeholders knew about them. The second was a live demo that visualized what data third-parties collect when visiting EdTech websites online. Both activities were a resounding success! Read more about the event here.
Sep 27, 2022 | Events
We were excited to co-organize the fourth annual symposium on applications of contextual integrity, PrivaCI, at CornellTech in New York City. Jake presented at the symposium on our K-12 EdTech project and also helped mentor new and incoming students to the community – it was a great event all round!
