Saiph Savage

@saiphcita.bsky.social

💼 Assistant Professor at Northeastern University 🏛️ Director Civic AI Lab ⚖️AI Tech Policy at the Global Partnernship on AI 🚀TR35 by MIT Tech review 🎓Alumni: UNAM & UCSB 👷Former Tech Worker

🚨 The Collective Intelligence workshop lineup is now live! Join us shaping the future of: 🤝 Human-AI teaming 🧠 Cognitive security & AI oversight 🌍 Sovereign AI 📚 AI for science, digital humanities & cultural heritage Apply: ➡️https://ci.acm.org/2026/accepted_workshops.html #CI2026 #CI26 #HCOMP26

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Saiph Savage wants tech innovations to uplift workers, not crowd them out. Now, along with co-authors Pam Cerdeira and Liliana Savage, she's published a book showing gig workers how to turn AI's gains into their own gains. Read more: https://bit.ly/4w8KcxA

Graphic to promote Khoury News article. At the top is an image of Saiph Savage, an assistant professor of Khoury College who is featured in this article, sitting at a desk surrounded by colorful stationery and office supplies. Below this is the article headline in black text which reads, "Q&A: How freelance workers can turn AI from a job threat into a job asset". In the bottom left corner is a subheading in bold, black text that reads, "By Madelaine Millar".

Our research on AI and the Future of Work made it into @wired.com ! The piece highlights AI-mediated hiring, one of the most consequential ways AI is already reshaping work. Glad to see research on AI and future work reach a broader audience. www.wired.com/story/he-cou... @saiphcita.bsky.social

He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

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We're extending the submission deadline for our @chiwork.bsky.social workshop "𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬" to 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟑𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! Thanks to everyone who has already submitted. If you've been planning to submit, now you have a bit more time. 👉 chiwork-ai.hauke.haus/cfp.html

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Starting my week reading Mafalda. This strip reminds us that workers’ rights and collective action don’t move forward through slogans alone. They move when people organize & bring big ideas into everyday life Here’s to a Monday of solidarity, and turning “someday” into action 👊 #AIforWorker

The comic strip shows a short exchange between Mafalda and a younger child. The child says that their dad often talks about the “social revolution.” Mafalda asks what he says about it, and the child explains that the dad claims the masses are ready and that the proletariat will make the social revolution. Mafalda then asks the key question: “And when?”

In the final panel, the answer is vague and almost dismissive: “Sometimes, when he’s sitting in the living room, he says it.”

The humor comes from the contrast between grand, ideological language and the lack of concrete action. The revolution is framed as something constantly discussed but never actually planned or carried out. Mafalda’s simple question exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality, highlighting how social change is often postponed, abstracted, or reduced to talk rather than collective action.

@saiphcita.bsky.social shared with us the importance of data transparency for worker advocacy and collective action. This also enables the team to build culturally-aware recommendation tools for workers. Helping people understand the inner workings of technology will empower collective action.

I teamed up with Dr. Rafael Morales (political scienctist) to teach at UNAM on AI for Policy Makers 🤖+🧑‍⚖️ Our students included: 🏛️Olimpia Coral, who led Mexican laws criminalizing digital violence ⚖️ Mexican Congresswomen We taught them how to use gen AI for public policy youtube.com/watch?v=dqm4...

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The Google antitrust verdict is a paradox. The judge found Google GUILTY of maintaining an illegal monopoly But he also "recognized that AI has changed the game" & new competition is here. ➡️https://es.linkedin.com/pulse/el-fallo-del-juicio-google-qu%C3%A9-nos-dice-sobre-futuro-de-savage-erkde

cartoon of doctor savage and the google judge

I met with US Senator Ed Markey. I am proud he cited my research on the invisible labor powering AI. My research creates new tools to measure how workers fuel AI platforms under precarious, unseen conditions. See some of my related research: 🧪https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.00169

dr. savage with senator markey