- Cyborg Psychology
Sheer Karny is a multidisciplinary researcher studying human-AI interaction advised by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn. A through-line of his research is creating collaborative AI systems by designing assistants, agents, and interfaces that complement human cognition, decision-making, and well-being. His recent work has been about bridging mechanistic interpretability -- the ability to make sense of neural-level activity in LLMs -- and user interfaces to create safer human-chatbot interactions, helping dub the term Neural Transparency. This connects to his contributions to a recent pre-print, "My Boyfriend is AI", underscoring his desire to understand the individual and societal-level implications of the increasing prevalence of human-AI companionship. This work has been covered by MIT Tech Review, The Guardian, and The New York Times, among others.
His work has been published in journals and conference proceedings such as Nature Machine Intelligence and the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference.
To stay up-to-date on his work, check out his website and google scholar profile.