Patrick Gage Kelley
HCI, Privacy & Safety Researcher
Hi! I'm Patrick Gage Kelley, a Usable Privacy & Safety researcher working at the intersection of technology, society, and policy. My research informs product and policy change that helps everyone be safer in a world of AI.
News
- Oct 2026
This week at
AIES we’re presenting our paper on how people think AI makes mistakes (they know it does you don’t have to keep telling them). - Sep 2026
Our NeurIPS paper designing and executing a benchmark of privacy and safety questions that people would realistically ask, HelpBench, was accepted.
- Sep 2026
A long, long overdue v2.0 of pgk.io, finally launched. As a person who loves to document and archive, it’s just been irresponsible of me to not.
- Aug 2026
Co-wrote one of
CRA ’s new AI-education recommendation reports. Read the press release - Aug 2026
General co-chair for
SOUPS 2026 in Hannover, Germany — my fourth and final time. Visit soups.page - Aug 2026
Attended a Johns Hopkins pre-
USENIX Security workshop, spoke on a career panel. - Jun 2026
HCIC 2026, Estes Park, Colorado. Ashley Marie Walker and I ran a morning activity on ‘Getting Specific’ with the harms and benefits of AI. - Mar 2026
I attended and spoke at a Partnership on AI event on the complicated relationships people have with AI chatbots around mental health and harm. See the post from
PAI
Featured Projects
Privacy Nutrition Labels
Designing consumer friendly privacy information displays for websites and apps.
AI Explainability
Making AI systems' decisions understandable to the people affected by them.
At-Risk Users
Technology and education for people facing heightened digital threats to their safety, privacy, and security.
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