Richmond Wong

About

Richmond Wong is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He directs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab where his research seeks to create social, cultural, and organizational environments that can support technologists and designers in ethical decisionmaking. This includes creating design approaches that propose alternate ways to consider human values, supporting worker and community-led actions, improving organizational ethics review practices, and understanding the role of law and policy.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Engineering ethics
• Epistemology
• Political Science
• Engineering
• Surgery
• Cardiology

Selected publications

• Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts

  2023 · 761 citations

  Pre-trained large language models (“LLMs”) like GPT-3 can engage in fluent, multi-turn instruction-taking out-of-the-box, making them attractive materials for designing natural language interactions. Using natural language to steer LLM outputs (“prompting”) has emerged as an important design technique potentially accessible to non-AI-experts. Crafting effective prompts can be challenging, however, and prompt-based interactions are brittle. Here, we explore whether non-AI-experts can successfully…

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• Self-expanding Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients

  JAMA Cardiology · 2022 · 169 citations

  Importance: In patients with severe aortic valve stenosis at intermediate surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a self-expanding supra-annular valve was noninferior to surgery for all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at 2 years. Comparisons of longer-term clinical and hemodynamic outcomes in these patients are limited. Objective: To report prespecified secondary 5-year outcomes from the Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis in Intermediate Risk Subjects Who Need Aortic Valve…

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• Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2023-04-14 · 93 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Numerous toolkits have been developed to support ethical AI development. However, toolkits, like all tools, encode assumptions in their design about what work should be done and how. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative analysis of 27 AI ethics toolkits to critically examine how the work of ethics is imagined and how it is supported by these toolkits. Specifically, we examine the discourses toolkits rely on when talking about ethical issues, who they imagine should do the work of ethics, and…

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• Privacy Legislation as Business Risks: How GDPR and CCPA are Represented in Technology Companies' Investment Risk Disclosures

  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2023-04-14 · 51 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Power exercised by large technology companies has led to concerns over privacy and data protection, evidenced by the passage of legislation including the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). While much privacy research has focused on how users perceive privacy and interact with companies, we focus on how privacy legislation is discussed among a different set of relationships-those between companies and investors. This paper investigates h…

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• The Future of HCI-Policy Collaboration

  2024-05-11 · 45 citations

  preprintOpen access

  Policies significantly shape computation’s societal impact, a crucial HCI concern. However, challenges persist when HCI professionals attempt to integrate policy into their work or affect policy outcomes. Prior research considered these challenges at the “border” of HCI and policy. This paper asks: What if HCI considers policy integral to its intellectual concerns, placing system-people-policy interaction not at the border but nearer the center of HCI research, practice, and education? What if H…

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Frequent coauthors

• Nick Merrill

  University of California, Berkeley

  11 shared

• Deirdre K. Mulligan

  10 shared

• James Pierce

  University of Washington

  8 shared

• John Chuang

  University of California, Berkeley

  6 shared

• Nitin Kohli

  5 shared

• Michael Madaio

  4 shared

• Sarah Fox

  4 shared

• Joshua A. Kroll

  4 shared

Labs

• Creating Ethics Infrastructures LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., School of Information

  University of California Berkeley

• Other

  UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

• B.S., Information Science

  Cornell University

• B.A., Science & Technology Studies

  Cornell University

Awards & honors

• Honorable Mention award at DIS 2021
• Best Paper Award at CSCW 2018
• Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2019
• Best Paper Award at CSCW 2018

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