Jaemarie Solyst

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I am a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, where I get to work with Amy Ogan, Jessica Hammer, and Motahhare Eslami. My research is at the intersection of responsible AI, human-computer interaction, and computing education.

With a commitment to social justice, I investigate how young people can be empowered in the age of AI with critical AI literacy and agency to participate. I focus on diverse youth with identities underrepresented in computing, since they face heightened risks from AI but are overlooked as important contributors to the future of AI fairness. My research has been published in top tier human-computer interaction and learning science venues and has been awarded at ACM CHI and CSCW. 

I am a Kapor Foundation Research Fellow and a Jacobs Foundation CERES Scholar. I previously interned with Google's Responsible AI Team. Before my PhD studies, I received my BA with a double major in computer science and psychology from Mount Holyoke College and then was a Fulbright research scholar in Germany.

About my work

Youth regularly use AI. However, it is increasingly well-known that AI can cause harm, such as through the reproduction of societal biases at scale. My research explores fostering young people's development of techno-social change agency in the age of AIin other words, their critical socio-ethical understanding of AI-driven technologies and ability to participate in creating more just AI.


💡 Are you a researcher or educator interested in youths' critical understanding of AI? Check out some examples of  my AI literacy materials.


Recent selected publications

(a full list can be found on my curriculum vitae and Google Scholar page)

The Potential of Diverse Youth as Stakeholders in Identifying and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias for a Future of Fairer AI

Jaemarie Solyst, Ellia Yang, Shixian Xie, Jessica Hammer, Amy Ogan, & Motahhare Eslami. CSCW 2023.


RAD: A Framework to Support Youth in Critiquing AI

Jaemarie Solyst, Emily Amspoker, Ellia Yang, Motahhare Eslami, Jessica Hammer, & Amy Ogan. To appear at SIGCSE 2025.


"I Would Like to Design": Black Girls Analyzing and Ideating Fair and Accountable AI

Jaemarie Solyst, Shixian Xie, Ellia Yang, Angela E.B. Stewart, Motahhare Eslami, Jessica Hammer, & Amy Ogan. CHI 2023.

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Children's Overtrust and Shifting Perspectives of Generative AI

Jaemarie Solyst, Ellia Yang, Shixian Xie, Jessica Hammer, Amy Ogan, & Motahhare Eslami. ICLS 2024.

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