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
- Aug 2026 Giving the opening keynote at the first Peer Learning meeting of the AI Ethics Business Council, Uruguay Chapter, convened by UNESCO and CUTI in Montevideo (August 27), where companies work through practical cases of responsible AI.
- 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.
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