Sky Sheng

Sky (Kehan) Sheng, PhD

I'm passionate about using AI to empower minorities and marginalized communities in gaining technical skills, and developing AI solutions to address real-world challenges. My research spans across Data Science, Animal Welfare Science and AI fairness. While I don't have all the right answers to biases in AI, I wish to foster more diverse representation and perspectives in AI development. I believe it's crucial that we don't lose the voices of those not in power and making them invisible behind numeric machines through coded gaze. I recognize that ethical AI application includes knowing not using AI is also an option.

News

🌟 Silencing controversial realities through prompt revision: The erasure of intensive livestock farming in text-to-image generative AI
Sheng, K., Tuyttens, F.A.M., von Keyserlingk, M.A.G.
Technology in Society (2026) | Also accepted & presented at ACM FAccT 2025, Athens, Greece
πŸ“„ Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi Study of 272 International Experts
Saeri, A.K., Graham, J., Noetel, M., Slattery, P., et al. [184 authors, incl. Sheng, K.] β€” MIT AI Risk Initiative
Submitted (2026) β€” MIT AI Risk Initiative, MIT FutureTech
πŸ“„ "The Guardian is credible but leans towards opinion": Shadow mechanisms in GPT-5's web search and the politics of credibility
Terzis, P., Sheng, K., Sax, M., van Drunen, M., Sokol-Snyder, R., de LeΓ³n, E., Biega, A.
Submitted (2026)
πŸ“„ Decoding individual dairy cow behavioural profiles through electronic feeder and drinker data
Sheng, K., Foris, B., Weary, D.M., von Keyserlingk, M.A.G.
Accepted (2026) β€” Journal of Dairy Science