Johanna Gunawan

Back after a wonderful Junior Scholars Workshop for the ACM CSLAW Symposium! Now to nurse my jet lag...

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

“The most extreme form of cognitive surrender is what the authors call “autopilot,” which is basically automating yourself.”

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-wharton-study-on-ai-warns-of
via Instapaper

Missing from the headline: "using Claude Code."

Vibe hacking is already a thing. I've been saying this for a while, but no model-level safeguards will prevent it entirely. What they can do is slow it down enough for us to put societal-level safeguards in place.

www.popsci.com/technology/r...

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video fee... Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?

Control one Internet connected thermostat – harass one household
Control many thermostats – attack the electric grid
Control one robot vacuum – harass one cat
Control many robot vacuums – harass all the cats

The robots who predict the future Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.

Very nice review from MIT Technology Review "One might start by reminding the rationalists that any prediction [about human beings], computational or otherwise, is really just a wish—but one with a powerful tendency to self-fulfill... www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...

frankly, two weeks without guidance is probably not enough time for people who've formed attachments to wrap their minds around upcoming loss. if companies wont discourage attachment in the first place, they should handle offboarding better. id prefer they did the former, but it's already too late

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

this article in sum: love (and) death (of) robots

we briefly touched upon this unintended or intended pulling of robots' proverbial plugs in our CHI'25 paper -- safer sunsetting of products that foster attachment is *seriously* needed

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

YES amazing, thank you! gotta check my schedule but I have 👀 on it

!!!! would schlep out for an AMS event!

never thought about adding it to my email signature. good idea -- all crappy writing is delightfully my own, for better or worse!

So cool. Always love seeing the awesome work out of Khoury HCI!!!

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

“Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity.”

www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Desktop Computer Console Pin Relive the charm of the 90s with this enamel pin featuring a 90s windows desktop computer console hutch! Chunky monitors to retro vibes, this pin has it all.

Dropping this here for anyone who needs it. I’m slightly too long in the tooth for this being my own experience but I said to my elder millennial bff that this for sure was in “the den.” What even is having “a den?”

social media bans are not the solution to toxic tech platforms

and they hurt the most vulnerable kids

lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage

to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source

(e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds)

everything else is theatre.

Thrilled to be in The Hague today on a panel regarding online choice architecture for consumers at the Dutch Digital Supervisors Collaboration Platform (SDT) Symposium! www.sdt-symposium.nl/programma-on...

happy #CHI26 submission szn, y'all! may the PCS gods smile upon you ✨️

“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction FemTech is an emerging industry offering products, software, and services to support women’s health and well-being. Within FemTech, mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are popular for managing m...

“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps by Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni M Troiano, @johannagunawan.bsky.social @hermansaksono.bsky.social & Casper Harteveld
doi.org/10.1145/3743...

i've been writing primarily in british english for the past year and now i fear i've lost the american english habit

I don't think people understand quite well enough that browsers are *hard*. If you want to get a sense of how hard, try Mary's excellent in-depth coverage of one small issue.

There are officially enough U.S. law schools here to make a starter pack: go.bsky.app/MFG2zZk

Please let me know if I've missed anyone (and when others join).

*If you're wondering why I'm in here, that's just how starter packs work. The creator is added automatically & you can't take yourself out.

Okay, updating my list: So far, I've seen the following law schools here:

- @umichlaw.bsky.social

- @umnlawschool.bsky.social

- @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social

- @dukelaw.bsky.social

- @georgetownlaw.bsky.social

- @emorylaw.bsky.social

- @nyulaw.bsky.social

Any others I've missed?