Jose A. Guridi
Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science
Cornell University
I study what happens when AI meets governments, organizations, and people — mostly across Latin America and the Global South.
About
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at Cornell. Before that, I coordinated the development of Chile's first National AI Policy from inside its Ministries of Economy and Science — and watching a technology get governed in real time, with real constraints and trade-offs, is still what drives my work.
These days my research follows three questions: how countries regulate technologies they're still learning about, how AI can open up (or flatten) public participation, and how professionals actually use it once the hype fades. I work mostly in Latin America and the Global South, where I also advise UNESCO and the Inter-American Development Bank and co-founded Foresight. At Cornell I'm advised by Cristobal Cheyre, with Qian Yang and Malte Ziewitz on my committee.
News & Updates
- Jun 2026 Conducting UNESCO's AI Fundamentals Training with public servants in Bogotá, Colombia, with Germán López and coordinated by Natalia González Alarcón from UNESCO.
- May 2026 My paper "Redesigning AI Regulatory Sandboxes for Generative AI" (with Bhargavi Ganesh and Thiago Moraes) was workshopped at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), where I also served as a discussant.
- May 2026 Co-organizing the Community-Centered AI Thought Summit at Cornell (May 18–20) on community-controlled AI, environmental justice, and data sovereignty — an initiative I helped conceive with Jenny Goldstein and other PIs.
- May 2026 Invited keynote at Altice Conecta, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on the Dominican AI ecosystem (drawing on Foresight's work) and AI adoption in organizations.
- May 2026 Workshop "The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges" accepted at CSCW 2026, with JaeWon Kim and colleagues.
Selected Publications
[CHI'26] ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
[CSCW'25] Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 2025
Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation: Understanding Differences Among Policymakers
[CSCW'25] Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 2025
Digital Government: Research and Practice, 6(1), 2025
Policy Work
Chile's National AI Policy
Government of Chile, 2021
UNESCO AI Readiness Assessments (RAM)
Recommendations for Implementing AI Regulatory Sandboxes
Inter-American Development Bank, 2025
Talks & Media
Contact
jg2222@cornell.edu
Information Science, Cornell University