Ashley Khor is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public and International Affairs. Her dissertation, Safe Enough to Try GenAI, examines how public-serving organizations can translate responsible AI principles and public values into concrete decisions about the design, evaluation, and use of generative AI. Through Action Research with nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable and marginalized communities, her research investigates context-sensitive AI evaluation, human–AI interpretation and interaction, and responsible AI implementation under real-world organizational constraints. She leads the EAAMO Living Labs with Practitioners working group, where she develops and studies participatory approaches to responsible GenAI experimentation, organizational AI policy and capability building, and AI-enabled service delivery. Her research builds on more than a decade of experience leading applied AI initiatives in the public sector.
- M.Econ., University of Sydney, 2010
- B.Com. Economics, University of Sydney, 2008
Education & Training
- Khor, A. (2025). “Safety is a Process, not a Score: A Symbol-Aware Safety Evaluation Methodology for GenAI for Social Good Tools in High-Emotion Contexts.” Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 7(1), 33–41. DOI: 10.1609/aaaiss.v7i1.36864
- Yoo, N., Khor, A., Mukhija, N., Adebiyi, A., & Zilka, M. (2026). “Guidelines for Whom? Rethinking AI Ethics in Resource-Constrained Migration Services.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations (EvalEval), 19–25. Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/2026.evaleval-1.3/
- Human-centered AI
- Responsible AI implementation
- Human–AI interaction
- AI for public benefit
- Participatory AI
- Organizational AI capability and governance
