anna neumann 🌱

Second-year PhD student at the Compliant and Accountable Systems Group (led by Jat Singh) at the Research Center TRUST in Germany, examining how AI systems influence sociotechnical structures with a focus on responsible AI practices in algorithmic supply chains 🔗

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little about me (•ᴗ•)

bsc Electrical Engineering and Information Technology @ RUB
bsc Thesis: AI for speech and music separation
Msc Information and Communication Technology @ RUB
Msc Thesis: nlp & ml Strategies for Detecting Fake News

Got into critical computing while doing my master's via AI bias seminars and philosophy courses ✎In my PhD, I look at Responsible AI through the lens of computer science, trying to further informed governance through meaningful auditing of systems and involvement of various stakeholders

obsessed with obscure feminist literature, thrifting, and good matcha
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stuff i did 𓂃🖊

papers

on governing technology governed by natural language [forthcoming facct'26]

Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives on Generative AI (LLM) System Prompts [chi'26] [Best Paper award]

AI Safety Evaluations Need To Consider Cascading Effects [IASEAI'26] [video]

Cascading Effects: A Multifaceted Governance Challenge in AI Systems [EurIPS'25 workshop 'beyond regulation: private AI governance' (PAIG)]

Training Your Replacement: The Creative Double-Bind of Generative AI [ISAT'25]

Position is power: system prompts as a mechanism of bias in language models [Facct'25]

Caught in the Cascade: Why LLM Auditing is Missing the Middle [chi'25 HEAL workshop]
Between Threat and Tool: When Users Are Asked To Design Their Competitors [chi'25 GenAI@CHI workshop]
✨ Dispelling AI’s Magic ✨: Demystification as Resistance to AI Solutionism [chi'25 Resisting AI Solutionism workshop]