Jaemarie Solyst

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jsolyst [at] andrew.cmu.edu


I am a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, advised by professors Amy Ogan and Jessica Hammer and collaboration with Motahhare Eslami. My work is at the intersection of responsible AI, learning science, & human-computer interaction.

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

In my past, 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. I interned with Google's Responsible AI Team and am a CERES scholar with the Jacobs Foundation.

About my work

As regular users, youth are stakeholders of 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 make change toward a more ethical AI future.


💡 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. Accepted to SIGCSE 2025. (Note: the link goes to a draft of this publication)


"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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