News & Media
What we are working on and who's talking about it.
Talks from inside the lab, our latest announcements, and press & conference mentions of our work — each column scrolls independently, or expand any of them to see everything at once.
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Selected Talks
V.O.I.C.E: Risk Taxonomy of Voice Synthesis
USENIX PEPR 2026 · Recorded talk
Lili Dudas & Tanusree Sharma
Decentralized Identity and Trust: Empirical Insights
CMU CyLab Secure Blockchain Summit 2025· Recorded talk
Tanusree Sharma (PI)
Verifying Humanness: Personhood Credentials for the Digital Identity Crisis
USENIX PEPR 2025 · Recorded talk
Tanusree Sharma (PI)
Recording pending
V.O.I.C.E— Showcase
Trust & Safety Research Conference, Stanford FSI · 2026
Hive Lab
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News
- Jun 2026 Hive Lab will showcase the V.O.I.C.E Risk Framework at the Trust & Safety Research Conference, Stanford University.
- May 2026 Lili and Tanusree will co-present the V.O.I.C.E Risk Framework at USENIX PEPR.
- May 2026 Lili will present "Contextual Integrity in Youth AI Use" (with Aljawharah) at the PrivaCI Symposium 2026.
- Apr 2026 New paper on democratic AI governance accepted in Nature Scientific Reports.
- Mar 2026 Two paper accepted to ACM Transactions on the Web.
- Oct 2025 Hive Lab PI gives an invited talk at Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Summit.
- Sep 2025 New paper accepted to IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
- Aug 2025 Two papers accepted to the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.
- Jun 2025 One paper accepted to ACM ASSETS 2025.
- Mar 2025 One paper accepted to ACM COMPASS.
- Jul 2025 Hive Lab PI Tanusree received the Google Research Scholar Award 2025
- Aug 2025 Agentic AI Summit UC Berkeley RDI
- Oct 2025 Invited talk — Secure Blockchain Summit CMU CyLab
- Aug 2024 Invited talk - Decentralization and AI SummitUC Berkeley RDI
- Dec 2024 Two papers accepted to IEEE S&P 2025, and one to NDSS 2025.
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Media Mentions
The New York Times
Character.AI to Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots
Oct 2025 · Unconfirmed mention
Penn State News
Democratic approach to challenge, improve AI tools
May 2026
Penn State News
Q&A: Improving How Blind and Low-Vision People Navigate Deepfakes
2025
The ADNA Podcast
The Hidden Risks Behind Voice AI
Jul 2025
Penn State IST News
Tanusree Sharma Recognized by SOUPS 2024 — John Karat Award
Sep 2024
Top Tech News — The AI Beat
Is OpenAI's "Moonshot" to Integrate Democracy Into AI Tech More Than PR?
2024
Crypto.news
Crypto Claims to Be Inclusive. Not for the Visually Impaired, as It Turns Out.
2024
HapticsDAO
Web3 Accessibility — Research & Relevant Papers
2024
iSchool, UIUC
Social Media Advertising and Privacy in the Global South
Feb 2022
OpenAI Blog
Democratic Inputs to AI — Grant Program Update
2023
Oasis Labs
DAOs Should Enable Private Voting for Decentralization
Unconfirmed mention
Penn State IST
IST Seed Grant — Human Aspects in Digital Identity Solutions
Oct 2024
Forbes
How To Use COVID-19 Tracking Apps And Still Protect Your Privacy
Jun 2020