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Hello! My name is Kevin.
I am a software engineer and research lead at the Digital Safety Research Institute.
There, I lead development of the AI Incident Database and work on other public interest technology projects. I am interested in digital privacy, trustworthy AI, the semantic web, and user-citizen welfare.
Previously, I conducted research at MIT IPRI on intersections of digital privacy and HCI on large internet platforms. And before that, I was a software engineer at Google in both the US and EU, where I worked on accessible cultural exhibitions at Google Arts & Culture and virtual networking infrastructure at Google Cloud.
I also like to backpack, cook, and learn new languages well enough to be a polite fool.
email: [my name] @ paeth.xyz github: @kepae bluesky: @paeth.xyz
Recent Works
- Independent Clinical Evaluation of General-Purpose LLM Responses to Signals of Suicide RiskNick Judd, Alexandre Vaz, Kevin Paeth, Layla Inés Davis, Milena Esherick, Jason Brand, Inês Amaro, Tony RousmaniereIASEAI, 2026 (forthcoming)
- Lessons for editors of AI incidents from the AI Incident DatabaseKevin Paeth, Daniel Atherton, Nikiforos Pittaras, Heather Frase, Sean McGregorAAAI IAAI, 2025
- AI Risk, Safety, and Incident ReportingKevin Paeth, Sean McGregorHandbook of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature), 2025
- I Know Who You Are: Unassisted Humans Infer Personal Traits from Facebook Group MembershipsKevin PaethMassachusetts Institutes of Technology, 2023
- Indexing AI risks with incidents, issues, and variantsSean McGregor, Kevin Paeth, Khoa LamNeurIPS workshop on Human-Centered AI (HCAI), 2022