Samir Passi currently works on a critical challenge with increasingly autonomous AI systems: judging whether they do the right things, in the right ways, for the right reasons. He focuses on how people make these judgments and how builders can design systems to support them.

His broader work examines what makes AI transparency useful enough to act on, how AI is changing professional work and expertise, and how organizations can build responsible AI into their development practices. Across his R&D work, Samir not only anticipates emerging challenges with modern AI and develops ways to evaluate and address them, but also works closely with development teams to turn research into practical requirements and design features, as well as frameworks and practices for building, deploying, and using AI responsibly.

Samir works at Kforce, where he is on contract with Microsoft’s AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research (AETHER) team. He is also an Affiliate of the Data & Society Research Institute. His research has received two Best Paper awards at ACM CSCW and a Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CHI. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from Cornell University, an M.Sc. (Research) in Science & Technology Studies from Maastricht University, and a B.Tech. in Information Technology from DA-IICT.