anna neumann 🌱
PhD student at the Compliant and Accountable Systems Group (led by Jat Singh) at the Research Center for Trustworthy AI 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 (first author)
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]
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]
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]
Deep Learning-Based Claim Matching with Multiple Negatives Training [icnlsp'23]
other papers
Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi Study of 272 International Experts [arxiv'26]
Invited Talks
posters
media
05.26: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article [Washington Post Interview]
05.25 [Seeing What's Missing: Bringing Responsible AI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis] [ai & equality pub talk]
academic service
external
26: aies'26 [reviewer]
26: jair (journal of artificial intelligence research) [reviewer]
26: ai transparency conference'26 [reviewer]
26: icml'26 workshop 'ai4good' [reviewer]
26: icml'26 workshop 'ai4law' [reviewer]
26: icml'26 workshop 'taigr' (technical ai governance research) [reviewer]
internal
25/26: phd representative
24/25: graduate school & social events organizor
23/24: established and implemented phd self-governance across the research center
events
05.26: 5th Max Planck Law | Tech | Society Graduate Student Symposium [presenter]
05.26: IAS fellowship event (University of Amsterdam) [poster presenter]
04.26: chi'26 [paper presenter]
03.26: iaseai'26 [attendee workshops on open-weight AI risk management & consensus building on AI red lines]
11.25: mozilla festival'25
10.25: cscw'25 [attendee workshop 'critical futures of work']
07.25: mpi-sp symposium [Challenges in a Digitalised Society]
06.25: jedai event (Radical Transparency in AI: Designing for Resistance)
03.25: cs&law'25 [lightning talk]
11.24: czs stem impact school
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Teaching
courses
Seminar: Responsible AI: issues and methods (ws 25/26, ss 26)
Master's Research Project: Social Media for Agents and Humans (ss 26)theses
26: lucas lichner (wip)