Security, Trust, and Safety (SETS)
Hosting Discussions That Matter
SETS convenes practitioners and researchers on Roosevelt Island for high-level conversations with leaders of the field. At left, a summary video of our first Fireside Chat with Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant.
SETS 2025 Summer Fellows
The inaugural cohort of SETS Fellows will research prevention measures against manipulation of AI agents, abuse of offline trackers, unwanted interactions on Bluesky, and democratized moderation on messaging apps.
The selected fellows are:
- Akshaya Kumar (Georgia Tech) will work on cryptographic accountability mechanisms to combat the abuse of Bluetooth-based trackers such as Apple’s Airtags, with a view to mitigating risks that include stalking and theft.
- Hal Triedman (Cornell Tech) will be investigating how AI agent systems taking semi-autonomous actions can be subverted, probing the security, privacy, and safety vulnerabilities they introduce in our information landscape.
- Joey Schafer (University of Washington) will be investigating user- and community-driven beliefs and behaviors on Bluesky for moderation and safety protections when identifying and engaging with unfamiliar, hostile, and/or possibly LLM-enabled accounts on the platform.
- Sudhamshu Hosamane (Rutgers University) will study community moderation interventions on WhatsApp through the development of a group-configurable moderation bot and a fact-checking dashboard.
Fellows will spend 10 weeks at Cornell Tech this summer working with faculty hosts Mor Naaman, Thomas Ristenpart, Vitaly Shmatikov, and Aditya Vashistha, as well as engaging with the rest of the campus research community. Fellows will publish a white paper with their findings at the end of the summer.
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